DISCOVERIES of great interest and importance are announced from Sakkara, where excavations are being carried on by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities under the direction of Mr. Walter Emery ...

Human remains covered in resin and cloth were found inside a 5,000-year-old cedar wood coffin at Sakkara near Cairo, Egypt. The coffin had been placed in a tomb thought to date from 3100 to 2890 BC ...

THE discovery at North Sakkara, forty miles south of Cairo, of a tomb which it is thought may prove to be that of Menes, the first king of theFirst Dynasty of Egypt (c. 3300 B.C.), is of ...