Inscriptions on the sarcophagus sides detail how his body was moved three. It has been a week of landmark announcements by Egyptian archaeologists, with another team revealing the discovery of a massive burial ground in the ancient city of Luxor, close to the ruins of a "complete" Roman-era city nearby. One of the best-known pharaohs, reputed as a great warrior and builder of temples, Ramses II ruled from 1279-1213 BC. "One of the tombs was for a priest who was in charge of the pyramids complex of King Unas, the last king of the 5th Dynasty." "Today's discovery tells us more about art in the Old Kingdom, mummification, and also about the people who worked there," Hawass said. "This is the first time in this century that such a large number of statues was found in Saqqara." "These statues are quite unique," Hawass said. Inside the final coffin, made out of solid gold, was the mummy of the boy-king. Zahi Hawass, a veteran Egyptian archaeologist, admires stone statues found by his team in a vertical shaft some 33 feet deep at the Gisr el-Mudir dig site in Saqqara, outside Cairo, Egypt, which date back to the The most splendid architectural find was a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each other.
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