After finding several treasures on the same Egyptian site over the course of a decade, archeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old haul inside an ancient funerary temple dedicated to Queen Neit, the wife of King Teti. The temple resides at the Saqqara necropolis in Memphis, south of Cairo. The vast necropolis has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since the 1970s and is home to the famous Giza pyramids, ancient monasteries, and numerous animal burial grounds. Headed by Egypt’s former antiquities minister, archeologist Zahi Hawass, the team unearthed over 50 sealed wooden coffins, or sarcophagi, in early January, dating back to the New Kingdom era some 3,000 years ago, according to Reuters. Carved into human likenesses and painted with bright colors, many of them were “still intact.” The sarcophagi were excavated from nearly 40-foot-deep burial shafts, reported Daily Mail. Beside the coffins, the team found a 13-foot-long papyrus “including texts of the Book …
Egypt Unveils 3000-Year-Old Coffins and ‘Book of the Dead’ Scroll in the Latest Discovery
January 29, 2021
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