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‘Death has become a big business.’ Elaborate coffins illuminate hidden history of ancient Egypt

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Andrew CurryLast week, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities announced a spectacular find. More than 100 elaborately decorated wooden coffins, many containing intact human mummies, were unearthed at the Saqqara necropolis, a burial complex covering 160 square kilometers and located 20 kilometers south of Cairo.

The most recent finds date back roughly 2500 years, to a time archaeologists call Egypt’s late period. Unlike earlier eras in Egyptian history, when prominent people were laid to rest individually in multichambered tombs or inside massive, eye-catching pyramids, Egyptian archaeologists found these coffins stacked two and three deep at the bottom of deep underground shafts.The artifacts illuminate a lesser known era in Egypt’s.

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