Experts Searched An Ancient Egyptian Burial Shaft – And Discovered A Lost Horde Of Eerie Treasures

It’s December 2020. A team of archeologists are hard at work in a dusty cemetery outside Cairo, Egypt. For years, they have been striving to expose the secrets of this ancient monument. But now they’ve hit the jackpot! The team has unearthed a cache of eerie treasures that have been buried for thousands of years. And the experts are confident that these artifacts will rewrite history...

The team – led by Egyptologist Zahi Hawass since 2010 – have been excavating a site within Saqqara. This ancient graveyard sprawls across the western bank of the River Nile. Over the years, archeologists have discovered many fascinating relics beneath Saqqara. But what Hawass and his team have found could trump them all.

And that’s really saying something. Impressive discoveries in Saqqara include a gigantic animal burial ground and a collection of dozens of 2,000-year-old mummies. These two finds could be connected as well. Because the archaeologists who found the roughly eight million animal remains believed the creatures may have been there to deliver their master’s prayers beyond the grave.

But after more than a decade of work, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiques announced that the latest excavations had been a success. Hawass and his team, in the dark recesses under the necropolis, had unearthed many lost secrets. But there was no fabled treasure of unparalleled worth. Instead, the eerie objects concerned the dead – and told a thrilling truth about the world of ancient Egypt.

Saqqara – located some 20 miles outside of Cairo – was also once a burial ground for Memphis. No, not the one in Tennessee. This Memphis was an ancient city founded around 2925 B.C. According to legend, it served as the seat of the pharaoh Menes. He united the Upper and Lower kingdoms of the country and kickstarted an era known as the First Dynasty.