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Down a sloping passage at Saqqara, the Czech mission reached the burial chamber and limestone sarcophagus of the man who served four kings and lived past 60. Full story on Mythologia Geographic. #Saqqara #AncientEgypt #BreakingNews

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00:00In October 2026, archaeologists at Saqqara followed a massive sloping passage down into the rock, and reached the burial chamber
00:09of Tashepsis himself.
00:11Inside stood his limestone sarcophagus, and inside it, his remains.
00:16Tomb robbers had stripped the jewelry long ago, but the skeleton survived, and anthropologists found he had lived past 60.
00:23An old man in a world where most died young, after serving four kings of Egypt.
00:294,000 years later, the commoner who married a princess is speaking again.

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