PanARMENIAN. Net – Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has discovered at least thirteen intact 2,500-year-old wooden coffins in a burial pit in Saqqarah, CNet reports.
Saqqara is a large necropolis next to the ancient city of Memphis.
The ministry said archaeologists had discovered more than thirteen human coffins, a maximum of which appear to have remained sealed for more than 2500 years, indicating that they had escaped looting.
Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, suggests that early discoveries are just the beginning of something bigger. The ministry intends to release a series of promotional films with new main points about the burial site.
The archaeological team will make paintings to notice more artifacts and will also attempt to identify the other people inside the coffins and their positions in ancient Egyptian society.
An enigmatic granite sarcophagus made headlines in 2018 when the government opened it and discovered a red liquid with remains inside. The Internet has gone too far to check the taste of the substance. That deserves not to be a challenge this time. The wooden coffins seem to be very dry.