Article: EGYPT: SARCOPHAGUS DISCOVERED IN SAQQARA.

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said Tuesday that a mission of Cairo university Faculty of Archaeology operating in Saqqara area was able to unearth a big sarcophagus dating to the reign of King Ramses II (1279-1213 BC). "The sarcophagus, made of rosy granite and bears hieroglyphic signs and different titles of the deceased, belongs to an overseer of stables during the reign on Ramses II," said Hosni. Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the mission found the sarcophagus inside a tomb unearthed in the 1980s by Dr. Sayyed Tawfiq, who led an archaeological team from Cairo university in ...

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