The "Life Science" website announced the selection of the Khoi cemetery, which supervises the royal palace in the late era of the Fifth Dynasty and was discovered in Saqqara Archaeological Cemetery last April, the oldest industrial areas in ancient times in Saqqara, and the coffins of Khafsa al-Asif as one of the 10 most important archeological discoveries of 2019, classified within The most attractive discoveries this year, and among the discoveries that were highlighted are the discovery of the Valley of the Apes, where it succeeded in finding one of the oldest industrial areas in ancient times, which includes about 30 workshops and huts for workers, and that between the discovered workshops, a workshop to clean gold, A workshop for coloring traps R, a workshop with needles for the funerary foundation weaving, a woodworking workshop, a grinding workshop, and huge pottery pieces that the ancient Egyptians used to store food, water and grains, all of which were preparing inside the treasures of the tombs of the pharaohs kings to bury them with them in their post-mortem tombs
Also, all the pottery pieces that were found date back to the eighteenth dynasty in ancient Egypt, and are similar to the pottery pieces found in Cemetery 54 in the Valley of the Eastern Kings.
Khoi Colorful Cemetery
The discovery of the cemetery during the current season of excavations during the Egyptian mission headed by Dr. Mohamed Mujahid, the work of excavation and scientific registration of the hierarchical group of King Gedkara from the Fifth Dynasty in the south of Saqqara, a person called "Khoi" who was a noble position with the king, in the late era of the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom And that the cemetery consists of an upper building consisting of an L-shaped booth, and it is clear that the stone's stones were extracted during ancient Egyptian times and reused in other places, where the mission found only the remains of the lower walls, which were constructed of white limestone.
Cache of Al-Asif
Archaeologists have discovered that the “Assassif’s cache” includes a distinct group of 30 colorful human blood coffins for men, women and children, in good condition, colors and patterns are complete, where they were uncovered by the situation that the ancient Egyptian left them, closed coffins inside the mummies, assembled in a cache In two levels one on top of the other, the first level contained 18 coffins and the second level had 12 coffins.
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