More than 100 ancient sarcophagi with mummies found in Egypt

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Archaeology said more than 100 ancient sarcophagi with mummies had been found in the country

and 40 figurines, some of them gilded.

According to RIA Novosti, closed sarcophagibelong to the Late Period of Ancient Egypt (662-332 BC) and the Ptolemaic era (332 - 30 BC). Even 100 coffins are only one percent of the total number of artifacts in the studied region.

The found artifacts will be distributed to four museumsEgypt. The peculiarity of the sarcophagi is that they are made from local wood. This means that in ancient times there was some kind of workshop for the production of sarcophagi. They intend to find it in 2021.

Scientists also showed the contents of one of the coffins using X-rays. There was a man about 165 centimeters tall.