Subscribe to our channel! rupt.ly/subscribe 2,500-year-old ancient Egyptian sarcophagi have been discovered and revealed by Egyptian archaeologists in Giza in the south of Cairo on Saturday.
"There are a total of fifty-nine wooden coffins, of which some of them in black, some of them in colour. Some of them were protected by resin," said the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri.
"Some of them have a perfect condition mummy," he added.
The 59 well-preserved coffins and another 28 statues of the god Ptah Sokar were discovered on the UNESCO World Heritage Site, known as the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, near the 4,700-year-old pyramid of Djoser.
There are reportedly many more coffins on the site which remain to be excavated.
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