Egypt: the biggest discovery of 2020: 59 well-preserved sarcophagi found – culture



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Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khalid El Anani described the discovery of 59 well-preserved sarcophagi in the Sakkara necropolis dating back at least 2,600 years as Egypt’s greatest archaeological discovery for 2020.

Khalid el-Anany, Egypt's minister of tourism and antiquities, on the right, and Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities, on the left, stand on a sarcophagus at the archaeological site of Saqqara, 30 kilometers away. (19 miles) south of Cairo.  Egypt on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. El-Anany says that at least 59 sealed sarcophagi with mummies inside were found in three pits in the vast necropolis, believed to have been buried there more than 2,600 years ago.  (AP Photo / Mahmoud Khaled)