Untouched 4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt
A. R. Williams 1 day ago
During Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that now occupies the desert west of modern Cairo. His colourfully decorated tomb, apparently intact, has recently come to light some 16 feet (five meters) beneath the sand at the archaeological site known as Saqqara.
© Getty The Egyptian Archaeological Mission working at the Sacred Animal Necropolis in
Saqqara archaeological site succeeded to uncover the tomb
This burial is “one of a kind in the last decades,” said Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, at a press conference that announced the discovery earlier today. "The colour is almost intact even though the tomb is almost 4,400 years old."