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Archaeologists in Egypt on Saturday unearthed human and animal mummification workshops and tombs dating back 4,000 years in the ancient burial ground of Saqqara, around 30 kilometres (roughly 18.5 miles) south of Egypt’s capital Cairo.
Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry said that the workshops, which house the mummified humans and animals, date back to ancient Egypt's 30th dynasty, which reigned about 2,400 years ago.
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, discovered in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, the government said on Saturday.The vast burial site, at the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to more than a dozen pyramids, animal graves and old Coptic Christian monasteries.