Egypt reveals 59 ancient coffins found near Saqqara pyramids

One of the discovered tombs at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt (Mahmoud Khaled/AP)

Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister said.

At least 59 sealed sarcophagi, with mummies inside most of them, were found that had been buried in three wells more than 2,600 years ago, Khalid el-Anany said.