At a site in Egypt’s Asasif necropolis, where the ancient city of Thebes once stood, diggers uncovered 30 ancient wooden sarcophagi with perfectly preserved mummies inside.
The coffins are about 3,000 years old and were probably for priests and children.
A team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a “distinctive group of 30 colored wooden coffins for men, women and children” in a cache at Al-Asasif cemetery on Luxor’s west bank, the Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement on Saturday.
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“It is the first large human coffin cache ever discovered since the end of the 19th century,” the Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany was quoted as saying during a ceremony in Luxor.
In another story How Old Do You Think This World Is?
How old do you think is the world? If you ever wonder how old this earth is, there are two dominant suggestions.
Some claim the world is about 6000 years old, while others conclude that it is much older, as old as 4 billion years.
Age is something that a lot of people are obsessed about, people attached respect and value to people and things based on the age they have accumulated. Hence, it explains why people have always desire to know the ages of things, natural and man-made: how old is that man, that elephant, the pyramids, the car, the painting etcetera. But people rarely asked how old the earth is.
In folklores elders often refer to the age of the world in vague expressions, like in the olden days, or “in the beginning.” But there are men who dared to asked and even calculate the age of the world.
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