Egyptian archaeologists said Saturday that they have discovered 59 well-preserved and sealed coffins in recent weeks buried more than 2500 years ago.
Opening one of the richly decorated sarcophagus before the media assembly, the team mummified the remains wrapped in burial fabric with brightly colored hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The spectacular discovery was unearthed south of Cairo in the vast saqqara cemetery, the necropolis of the former Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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“We are very much with this discovery,” said Mostafa Waziri, general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Meters (40 feet).
An undetermined number of more coffins may still be buried there, said Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani near the 4700-year-old Djoser Pyramid.
“So today is not the end of discovery, but the beginning of wonderful discovery,” he said.
A photo taken on October 3, 2020, members of diplomatic missions in Egypt attending a press convention to reveal the new discovery of the Saqqara necropolis, 30 km south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo (AFP).