Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled historical workshops and tombs they are saying had been found just lately at a Pharaonic necropolis simply outdoors the capital Cairo.
The areas had been discovered within the sprawling necropolis of Saqqara, which is part of Egypt’s historical capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage web site.
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Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stated the workshops had been used to mummify people and sacred animals. They date again to the thirtieth Pharaonic Dynasty (380 BC to 343 BC) and Ptolemaic interval (305 BC to 30 BC), he stated.
Contained in the workshops, archaeologists discovered clay pots and different gadgets apparently utilized in mummification, in addition to ritual vessels, Waziri stated.
The tombs, in the meantime, had been for a prime official from the Outdated Kingdom of historical Egypt, and a priest from the New Kingdom, in accordance with Sabri Farag, head of the Saqqara archaeological web site.
In recent times, Egypt’s authorities has closely promoted new archaeological finds to worldwide media and diplomats. It hopes that such discoveries will assist entice extra vacationers to the nation to revive an trade that suffered from political turmoil following the 2011 rebellion.
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