Egypt
A number of wooden coffins, canopic jars and ushabti boxes and figurines have been found at Saqqara however unfortunately no mummies as some ghoul robbed the tomb and apparently removed or destroyed the mummies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090226/sc_nm/us_egypt_sarcophaguses
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Egypt
The Work of Ghouls
A number of wooden coffins, canopic jars and ushabti boxes and figurines have been found at Saqqara however unfortunately no mummies as some ghoul robbed the tomb and apparently removed or destroyed the mummies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090226/sc_nm/us_egypt_sarcophaguses
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Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The Customs Police at the High Dam Port in the Upper Egypt city of Aswan Wednesday caught a Sudanese traveller attempting to illegally smuggle seven wooden boxes full of ancient Egyptian and Islamic artefacts...
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BBC News (Yolande Knell) With photo Archaeologists in Egypt have said they have discovered the largest known tomb in the ancient necropolis of Sakkara, to the south of Cairo. The tomb dates back 2,500 years to the 26th Dynasty and contains important artefacts,...
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drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video After King Tut’s tomb was discovered, everyone thought there were no more tombs to be found in the Valley of the Kings. But in 2006, we made an amazing discovery, the shaft of an unknown tomb. When I first saw the...
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drhawass.com With photographs. Four anthropoid wooden coffins, three wooden canopic jars, and four ushabti boxes have been unearthed inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta in the Dahshur Necropolis,...
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Here Dr. Zahi Hawass shows off the new discovery at Dashur. http://drhawass.com/blog/wooden-coffins-and-ushabti-figurines-found-dahshur...