South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Egypt unveils 59 ancient coffins buried 2,500 years ago” – below is their description.
Archaeologists in Egypt said on October 3, 2020 that they had discovered 59 coffins buried more than 2,500 years ago. Officials said they belonged to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty. The sarcophagi were unearthed in an ancient necropolis in Saqqara, a UNESCO world heritage site located south of Cairo.
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In This Story: Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt.
Ancient Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3100 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes.
The civilization was notable for the early development of an independent writing system, mathematics, and medicine, construction projects including pyramids, obelisks and temples, trade and even a peace treaty with surrounding regions, the first planked boats, as well as a formidable military. Ancient Egyptian society included a bureaucracy of elite scribes, religious leaders, and administrators under the control of a pharaoh, who ensured the cooperation and unity of the Egyptian people in the context of an elaborate system of religious beliefs.
