(Ali Abu Desheesh) Unearthing the Keeper of the Secrets “Unfortunately, the expedition did not find any inscriptions that might identify the owners of these statues,” he pointed out.Įgyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the director of the Egyptian excavation team, peering into a sarcophagus which was discovered within a shaft at Saqqara in Egypt.
“I put my head inside to see what was inside the sarcophagus: a beautiful mummy of a man completely covered in layers of gold,” announced the Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass when discussing this exciting mummy find. Estimated to be 4,300 years old, the man called Hekashepes was found inside a 50-foot-deep (15 m) shaft alongside a trove of beautiful statues carved to resemble servants, men, women and families, all in some way related or dated to the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties of Egyptian rule. It has been uncovered in Saqqara, near the Step Pyramid. A Pharaonic tomb containing a mummy wrapped in a gold-covered leaf may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date.
