Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a 4,200-year-old funerary temple for a queen and 50 coffins in an ...
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A sarcophagus found near Queen Nearit`s funerary temple in Saqqara, which was unveiled on January 17, 2021. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GETTY Archaeologists discovered a funerary temple in Saqqara, Egypt belonging to a queen who lived 4,200 years ago. They also found burial shafts containing 50 sealed wooden coffins, as well as a scroll with an excerpt from the Egyptian `Book of the Dead.` Researchers have uncovered more than 200 sarcophagi at Saqqara since September. Visit Business Insider`s homepage for more stories. For millennia, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in burial shafts under Saqqara, a city of the dead in the desert south of modern-day Cairo. But royal Egyptians like King Teti - a...