PHOTOS: Egypt uncovers 250 mummies in trove of artifacts at ancient necropolis in Saqqara
The mummy coffins in Giza on May 30 date back more than 2,500 years. Photo: Ziad Ahmed/NurPhoto via Getty Images
One of the newly discovered mummies on May 30 in Giza, Egypt. Photo: Ziad Ahmed/NurPhoto via Getty Images Statuettes depicting the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Nephthys and other sarcophaguses found in a cache dating to the Egyptian Late Period are displayed on May 30. Photo: Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images
Statuettes and figurines depicting cats and Egyptian deities found in a cache dating to the Egyptian Late Period at the Bubastian cemetery at the Saqqara necropolis on May 30. Photo: Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty ImagesA new archaeological discovery in Egypt in Giza's Saqqara Necropolis, on May 30. Photo: Fadel Dawod/Getty Images
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