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\n Journalists gather around an ancient sarcophagus more than 2500 years old, discovered in a vast necropolis and Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general<\/a> of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, center, in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues south of Cairo. (AP Photo\/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo.<\/p>\n


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Colorful, sealed sarcophagi and statues that were buried more than 2,500 years ago were displayed in a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists opened a coffin with a well-preserved mummy wrapp<\/a>ed in cloth inside. They also carried out X\u2010raying visualizing the structures of the ancient mummy, showing how the body had been preserved.<\/p>\n

Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany told a news<\/a> conference that the discovered items date back to the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt for some 300 years\u2014from around 320 B.C. to about 30 B.C., and the Late Period (664-332 B.C.).<\/p>\n

He said they would move the artifacts to at least three Cairo museums including the Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt is building near the famed Giza Pyramids. He said they would announce another discovery at the Saqqara necropolis later this year.<\/p>\n

The discovery at the famed necropolis is the latest in a series<\/a> of archaeological finds in Egypt. Since September, antiquities authorities revealed at least 140 sealed sarcophagi, with mummies inside most of them, in the same area of Saqqara.<\/p>\n