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Nearly 100 Coffins, 40 Gold Plated Statues Buried Over 2,500 Years Found In Egypt

Nearly 100 coffins with some mummies in them as well as 40 gold-plated statues have been found in southern Cairo, Egypt. The coffin or Sarcophagi which was buried more than 2,500 years ago was exhibited in a temporary exhibition at the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara.

Archaeologists have unearthed the coffin and found that there are mummies inside, they also performed X-rays that visualized the structure of ancient mummies showing how all the bodies were preserved.

Picture: ABC News

Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Khaled el-Anany, said the discoveries came from the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt for about 300 years from 320 BC to 30 BC.

According to him, they will move the artifacts to at least three Cairo museums including the Great Museum of Egypt under construction in Egypt near the famous Giza Pyramids.

He added that they will announce other discoveries in the Saqqara necropolis later this year.  Antiquities authorities there have uncovered at least 140 closed coffins found in Saqqara since last September.

Source: ABC News, SCMP, The Guardian

Adib Mohd

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