The largest tomb, 'decorated with scenes of daily life,' belonged to a priest, inspector and supervisor of nobles named Khnumdjedef, said Hawass. The vast burial site at the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to more than a dozen pyramids, animal graves and old Coptic Christian monasteries.Īrchaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former antiquities minister, announced the latest discovery, dating from the fifth and sixth dynasties-around the 25th to the 22nd centuries BC-to reporters at the dig site.
