https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50068575
Archaeologists have found more than 20 ancient wooden coffins near the Egyptian city of Luxor, the country's antiquities ministry says.
The coffins, whose brightly-coloured decorations are still visible, were uncovered at the Theban necropolis of Asasif, on the River Nile's west bank.
They were in two layers, with the ones on top across those below.
The ministry described the discovery as "one of the largest and most important" in recent years.
More details will be released at a news conference on Saturday.
Quite an impressive find - and, it seems quite a lot of the paintwork has survived, so hopefully we'll be able to decipher that and learn more about these people!
Anyway, I wonder how many of these are left? There can only have been so many made, after all...
Archaeologists have found more than 20 ancient wooden coffins near the Egyptian city of Luxor, the country's antiquities ministry says.
The coffins, whose brightly-coloured decorations are still visible, were uncovered at the Theban necropolis of Asasif, on the River Nile's west bank.
They were in two layers, with the ones on top across those below.
The ministry described the discovery as "one of the largest and most important" in recent years.
More details will be released at a news conference on Saturday.
Quite an impressive find - and, it seems quite a lot of the paintwork has survived, so hopefully we'll be able to decipher that and learn more about these people!
Anyway, I wonder how many of these are left? There can only have been so many made, after all...
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