Intact Tomb of High-Ranking Priest Found in Egypt. Its Age Is 4.4 Thousand Years

Archaeologists have discovered an intact tomb in the historic Saqqara region of Egypt that is about 4,400 years old.

The tomb belongs to a high-ranking priest who lived during the fifth dynasty of the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. The burial, as archaeologists believe, has never been plundered and has survived to this day approximately as the architects intended.

The tomb is 3 meters high and about ten meters long. Its walls are decorated with frescoes depicting the priest and his family.

• Saqqara is home to one of the oldest known necropolises in Egypt. The oldest burials discovered there date back to the 30th century BC.