"We found two beautiful wooden statues with golden faces of the deities Isis and Neftis, named the protectors of the coffin," excavation director Mohamed Al Saidi tells CBS News’ Ahmed Shawkat. The laundry list of discoveries includes bronze statues that depict ancient Egyptian gods, including Anubis, Osiris, Nefertem, Isis, and Hathor 40 wooden coffins with mummies sealed inside evidence of a burial along with bronze and brass trinkets and adornments, and more. The remarkably well-preserved objects in the necropolis are still in good-and sometimes colorful-condition, the researchers say. This week, archaeologists from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the recovery of more than 250 sarcophagi, 150 bronze statues and a variety of other antiquities from the site. A newly unveiled find should help: Researchers just revealed a massive trove of artifacts from the site, including hundreds of ancient sarcophagi in which ancient Egypt’s well-heeled dead were buried. Today, the place where they buried their dead is the archaeological site of Saqqara-and the vast scale of the ancient city of the dead is still coming into focus. The burials for the ancient city of Memphis took place in a massive necropolis about 15 miles southwest of Cairo. For thousands of years, ancient Egyptian dynasties laid their nobility to rest beneath the desert sand, often surrounding them with treasures and trinkets to take with them into the afterlife.
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