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Egypt discovers 14 ancient tombs at Saqqara

(UTV | Egypt)  – Egypt’s antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 coffins in the Saqqara area that had lain buried for two and a half thousand years.

 

Some of the coffins discovered at an ancient burial shaft at an Egyptian necropolis near Cairo, 9 September 2020

One of the coffins from a burial complex in the necropolis of Saqqara

The coffins were discovered down an 11-metre (36ft) deep well, accessed by a shaft

A team of archaeologists and experts with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities recently uncovered a burial complex in the necropolis of Saqqara, containing well-preserved sealed coffins, made of wood, and believed to be dating back some 2,500 years

A wooden sarcophagus discovered down an ancient well in Saqqara, Egypt

One of the smaller artefacts found with the coffins in Saqqara, Egypt

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