Archaeologists Unearth More Than 800 Tombs At Ancient Egyptian City Of The Dead
By Madison Dapcevich
12 Sep 2018, 11:20
Buried deep below the shifting sands of the Sahara desert lies an ancient necropolis more than 4,000 years old that, until recently, has been relatively unknown to Egyptologists. Now, an international group of researchers has teamed up to describe and map the ancient cemetery just outside the village of Lisht, Egypt, unearthing more than 800 tombs in the process.
An expedition co-led by the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities found 802 tombs buried in the massive cemetery, which is nestled between two pyramids, one positioned to the north and the other to the south.
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