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A storehouse of 30 Egyptians mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb, in a new round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo.
The tomb was located at the bottom of a 11-metre deep shaft, announced Egypt's top archaeologist Zahi Hawass and eight of the mummies were in sarcophagi, while the rest had been placed in niches along the wall.

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Multinational Team Creates the First 3-D Model of Egypt's Oldest Pyramid
The first "Virtual Step Pyramid" is to be used by architects, restorers, and archaeologists as part of efforts to save and restore the Step Pyramid in the face of threats from centuries of erosion and the fragility of the stone and clay body of the pyramid, exposed after the protective outer casing was removed by stone robbers in ancient times.

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The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project may be on the verge of discovering the remains of Imhotep, the architect of the Step Pyramid.

"We've now found two large tombs where we think Imhotep could be. The largest tomb is around 90 metres long by 50 metres wide. The walls are more than five metres thick. The second tomb is next to it, and is about 70 metres long by 50 metres wide. It has a complicated internal structure which suggests a courtyard or temple. The tombs dwarf everything in the area. A person of Imhotep's importance could have commanded the artisans and labour needed to build his own tomb on this kind of scale. All the information we have points to this being the most probable place he could be" - Project Director Ian Mathieson.

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Intact clay pots sealed with cartouches of King Tutankhamun and eight baskets have been discovered in his treasure room in the Valley of the Kings, the Egyptian Culture Minister said on Monday.

The 3,300-year-old find is highly surprising considering the vast number of visitors and researchers that have descended into the boy-pharaoh's tomb since British explorer Howard Carter discovered and broke into the treasure-packed burial place in the early 1920s.
Dr. Zahi Hawass, a world-famous Egyptologist who heads Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said his team of archaeologists had discovered baskets containing "large quantities of well-preserved doum [palm] fruits," and twenty pear-shaped vases bearing Tutankhamun's official seal.
The discovery is the second major find in three months for Hawass, who announced in June he had identified the mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's best-known female pharaoh and a descendant of Tutankhamun.
Hawass's team reportedly found the provisions, intended to accompany Tutankhamun into the afterlife, in a treasure chamber next to the room where the king's elaborate, multi-layered coffin was discovered. It remains unclear whether Howard Carter saw the items, but they are not listed in his reports on the tomb.

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