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More than 100 sarcophagi have been found in the Sakkara cemetery, south of Egypt’s capital, Cairo. In the image, the archaeologists take an X-ray of a mummy that was hidden in one of them.
More than a hundred ancient wooden coffins, so-called sarcophagi, have been found in the vast Egyptian cemetery at Sakkara, south of Cairo.
Sealed coffins over 2,500 years old were found buried in three different pits, twelve meters deep.
The sarcophagi were shown to the outside world for the first time on Saturday. Archaeologists opened one of the coffins and displayed its contents: a mummy wrapped in a funerary wrap adorned with colorful hieroglyphs.
Just over a month ago, archaeologists found 59 well-preserved sarcophagi in the same area. The Sakkara World Heritage site was a cemetery for the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, from early dynastic times and the time of the old kingdom, where many kings and high officials were buried.
– Excavations are still ongoing. Every time we empty a burial pit of sarcophagi, we find an entrance to another, says Khaled al-Anani, Minister of Antiquities and Tourism.
The sarcophagi will now be distributed among various museums in the country. The hope is that the findings can help the Egyptian tourism industry that suffered from a pandemic.
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