Egypt Saqqara - 30 Mummies Found in 2600 Year Old Tomb - News Video

9th February 2009:  Egypt Saqqara - 30 mummies were found in niches along the tombs walls of a storeroom inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara, west of Djosers step pyramid. The storeroom for mummies dates back to 640 B.C. during the 26th Dynasty, which was Egypts last independent kingdom before it was overthrown by a succession of foreign conquerors beginning with the Persians, Zahi Hawass said. But the tomb was discovered at an even older site in Saqqara that dates back to the 4,300-year-old 6th Dynasty, he said.

Eight sarcophagi were also found in the tomb. Archaeologists so far have opened only one of the sarcophagi and found a mummy inside of it. Mummies are believed to be inside the other seven.  Most of the mummies are poorly preserved, and archaeologists have yet to determine their identities or why so many were put in one room.

Here’s more videos from the same excavation site: