12/28/2023 0 Comments Mummies with a gold sarcophagus![]() The largest tomb, “decorated with scenes of daily life”, belonged to a priest, inspector and supervisor of nobles named Khnumdjedef, said Hawass. The vast burial site at the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to more than a dozen pyramids, animal graves and old Coptic Christian monasteries.Īrchaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s former antiquities minister, announced the latest discovery, dating from the fifth and sixth dynasties - around the 25th to the 22nd centuries BC - to reporters at the dig site. ![]() SAQQARA, Egypt - Egypt unveiled on Thursday a gold-laced mummy and four tombs, including of an ancient king’s “secret keeper”, discovered in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. ![]()
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