Two graves Faraone, 4,300 years old, discovered near Cairo

Two graves Faraone, old 4,300 years were discovered at Saqqara. They suggest that at the necropolis south of Cairo is much greater than believed until now, said the leader of the archaeological Egypt, Zahi Hawass. Cut into stone tombs were built for senior officials - one responsible for the careers that bring material for pyramids, and another for a woman finding animators to Pharaoh. "We announced a major discovery at Saqqara, the two new graves which date from 4,300 years now," said Monday, the archaeological site, Zahi Hawass. "The discovery of two graves is a start for a very large cemetery," he said Hawass. The discovery suggests that there are many things hidden in the vast necropolis of Saqqara, located 19 km from the capital Cairo, informs AP. Excavations have in the past focused only on an area next to the two nearby pyramids - the Pyramid of King Djoser Stairs and his unas, the last king of the dynasty will. The area where they were desoperite graves, located in south-west, is almost entirely unexplored. "That means that the royal cemetery is more than I thought," said Saleh Suleiman, archeologist responsible for the excavation of the two graves. Hawass, the leader of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, said that the excavations will continue, following the discovery will bring more light on Dynasty V and VI of the Old Kingdom, which has been in power now 4,000 years. One of the graves, with a width of nearly a meter and a length of 2.51 meters, are inscribed on a description entry, which is about a man, Yaamat, at which it was built. The second grave is double in size and includes inscriptions and a picture of a woman sitting. Excavations at Saqqara were now almost 150 years and revealed a vast necropolis with pyramids, tombs and funerary complexes, most dating from the Old Kingdom, but including sites from the Roman era. Despite decades of excavations, are always discoveries made in November. In November, Hawass announced the discovery of a new pyramids in Saqqara, the 118 has in Egypt and 12 of the necropolis. According to Hawass, only 30% of Egyptian monuments have been found, other further Lying under sand.