Storehouse of 30 mummies unearthed

A STOREHOUSE of 30 Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb, in a new round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo, archeologists said yesterday.

The tomb was located at the bottom of an 11m deep shaft, announced Egypt’s top archaeologist Zahi Hawass.

Eight of the mummies were in sarcophagi, while the rest had been placed in niches along the wall.