00:00Ancient Egypt was one of the first great human civilizations and recently at the
00:07Saqqara site archaeologists have uncovered another of its secrets.
00:11Experts with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities say they have found two
00:15mummification workshops or places where ancient Egyptians prepared the dead for
00:20the afterlife. The archaeologists say one is from the 30th dynasty which was a
00:24period from 380 to 343 BC as well as another from the Ptolemaic period or 305
00:31to 30 BC. The mummification workshops contain all of the ritualistic vessels
00:35and ingredients they would have used for processing mummies including linen for
00:39wrapping the bodies, clay pots for organs and natron salt for curing them. The whole
00:43area resides around 18 miles south of Cairo and is home to many recent
00:48archaeological finds including the Saqqara catacombs. Those catacombs
00:52include the remains of hundreds of mummified cats all discovered back in
00:562019. Excavators also unearthed two tombs as well including one that is 4,400
01:01years old and another that is 3,400 years old. Each belonged to a priest.
01:05Just the latest in what archaeologists hope are many more artifacts to be
01:09unearthed at Saqqara.
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