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Archaeologists have discovered what is thought to be the largest known tomb at Saqqara.

The tomb is one of two 26th Dynasty tombs recently uncovered at an area of Saqqara known as Ras El Gisr and are roughly 2500 years old.

One of the recently discovered tombs at Saqqara. Photo from the SCA.

It consists of a huge rock-hewn hall that branches off into many small rooms and passageways where artefacts such as an amulet of the Eye of Horus and mummified eagles were found. In one of the rooms coffins, skeltons and clay pots were found, while another room contained a well that is 23 feet deep.

The tomb is so large it took Zahi Hawass two hours to walk around it. According to Dr Hawass it was most likely to have been robbed at the end of the Roman period, during the 5th century AD.

Readers will remember in February last year when a storeroom of Mummies was discovered at Saqqara in a burial vault located south-west of the step pyramid of Djoser.

The mind boggles at what more remains undiscovered at the Saqqara necropolis.

Sources: BBC, Yahoo, Discovery

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