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Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a 4,200-year-old funerary temple for a queen and 50 coffins in an ancient city of the dead

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For millennia, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in burial shafts under Saqqara, a city of the dead in the desert south of modern-day Cairo. But ...
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Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis

Photos: Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis Canopic jars, which were made to contain organs that were removed from the body in the process of mummification ...
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Archaeologists unearthed 210 sarcophagi in an Egyptian city of the dead. They'd remained undisturbed for at least 2,500 years.

More than two millennia ago, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in Saqqara, an ancient city of the dead. Their organs were removed, and their bodies wrapped in linens. Priests placed them inside ...
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Photos: 27 unopened coffins unearthed at Egypt’s Saqqara pyramid

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian archaeologists have ...
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Archaeologists unearth 27 coffins at Egypt’s Saqqara pyramid

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian archaeologists have ...