Egypt has unearthed a new archaeological treasure in Luxor that includes 30 colored wooden sarcophagi for men, women and children, all in a good state of preservation to be the largest human cache found in more than a century.
The Ministry of Antiquities called the cache "Al-Assasif cache" after the cemetery in which the coffins were found on the mainland in Luxor and include tombs from multiple families in ancient Egypt.
According to the ministry, the coffins revealed by the situation left by the ancient Egyptian were in two levels, the first includes 18 coffins and the second includes 12 coffins.
The head of the Egyptian mission that investigated the discovery, Mostafa Waziri, said that this is the first cache of large human coffins discovered in full since the end of the 19th century.
He declared that the story of the cache is due to the priests collecting these coffins from the "stone houses" where they were buried, for fear that the tomb robbers who were deployed at the time, from stealing them, where they were collected and buried away from the thieves at the time.
Vaziri explained that the discovered coffins belong to the priests, priests and children of the 22nd Dynasty of the tenth century BC - about 3000 years ago - and indicate the different stages of the way the coffins were made in that period, where some of them are full of decorations and colors, including what is in the stages First Manufacturing.
The inscriptions on the sides of the sarcophagi represent various subjects including offerings and scenes from the Book of the Dead, scenes of offering sacrifices to deified kings such as King Amenhotep the First, as well as a number of texts with titles for the sarcophagus.
The Ministry of Antiquities decided to transfer the discovered coffins to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which Egypt will open next year next to the Pyramids of Giza.