صدى البلد البلد سبورت قناة صدى البلد صدى البلد جامعات صدى البلد عقارات
Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie
ads

Archeologists discover mummification workshop near pyramids


Sat 14 Jul 2018 | 02:44 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

SEE - July 14: Archaeologists announced today the discovery of a mummification workshop dating back some 2,500 years at an ancient necropolis near Egypt's famed pyramids.

AP quoted Antiquities ministry officials saying at a press conference Saturday that they hope the finding will reveal more about the secrets of mummification in the 26th dynasty of ancient Egypt. They said a communal burial site was also uncovered.

Officials said the discovery dates to the Saite-Persian period from 664-404 B.C. The site is located at the Saqqara cemetery, part of the Memphis necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The site, which lies south of the Unas pyramid, was last excavated in 1900.