The relics were displayed in a makeshift museum; at the base of Djoser’s Step Pyramid in Saqqara, 15 miles southwest of Cairo.
CAIRO — Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Monday unveiled a wealth of 2,500-year-old items discovered recently; at the historic necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, according to the country’s antiquities authorities.
The relics were displayed in a makeshift museum at the base of Djoser’s Step Pyramid in Saqqara; 15 miles southwest of Cairo. The discoveries contains 250 painted sarcophagi with well-preserved mummies within, as well as 150 bronze figurines of ancient deities and bronze utensils used in rites of Isis, the goddess of fertility in ancient Egyptian mythology, according to Mostafa Waziri, president of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
