Largest mummification workshops ever discovered in Egypt
It has been announced that the largest and most comprehensive human and animal mummification workshop in the country to date has been discovered during excavations in the ancient Saqqara region of Egypt.
In addition to mummification workshops, two new tombs and some archaeological findings were discovered.
It was reported at a press conference by the Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Ahmed Isa, that the largest and most comprehensive human and animal embalming workshop in the country was discovered during excavations in the ancient Saqqara region of Egypt.
Many ambassadors, scientists and foreign officials attended this meeting.
Archaeologists have uncovered two of the largest and most comprehensive mummification workshops in the country to date, as a result of six years of excavations in Saqqara.
Scientists believe that one of the Workshops was used for human embalming and the other for animal embalming.
How were the workshops?
Officials stated that the mummification workshops belong to the end of the 30th Pharaonic Dynasty and the beginning of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, while the tombs are from the old kingdom and new kingdom periods.
The mummification workshops consist of a rectangular structure divided into rooms with beds 2 meters tall.
In another workshop, there is a rectangular structure divided into halls and rooms with an entrance in the middle, in this structure there are various vessels, tools and dead animal bodies.
The Saqqara region, which is home to artifacts from the ancient Egypt’s pharaonic dynasties, the ancient Greek and Roman empires and is considered an open-air museum, has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1979.
The historical Saqqara region, located in the city of Giza, is home to the majority of historical artifacts from ancient Egypt. There are also royal cemeteries, temples and small pyramids dating back to different centuries, where people living in Memphis, the former capital of the country, are buried.
