4,500-Year-Old Cemetery Discovered by the Pyramids of Giza

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The oldest of the tombs belonged to a family and contains the intact sarcophagi and remains of two people from the Fifth Dynasty, named “Behnui-Ka” and ”Nwi Who.” Both individuals held several seemingly powerful titles, such as “purifier” and “judge” as the hieroglyphic inscriptions found revealed.

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According to Archeology.org, artifacts were also found at the burial site, including a limestone statue depicting one of the two men with his wife and son, painted wooden coffins, and wooden and clay funerary masks dating to the eighth century BC from when the cemetery was reused.

H/T: Lonely Planet