Two sarcophagi have been discovered by archaeologists at an ancient burial site near Cairo. The one is wooden with a mummy inside and the other one is made of stone, both dating from the Late Dynastic Period of the Ptolemaic era (323-30 BC). The ancient relics found at the bottom of a 50-metre shaft in Saqqara, 20 kilometres south of Cairo, are the best preserved of its kind in the world, according to archaeologists. Last year, the same French team had discovered 19 mummies, as well as wood and limestone sarcophagi, in the burial ground in Saqqara.

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