After another year of exploring the depths of the Saqqara necropolis, a Polish archaeological mission has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old tomb that belonged to an ancient Egyptian officer in charge of secret documents during the reign of the first pharaohs of the Sixth Dynasty, around 2,300 BC.
Archaeologists with the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw found the tomb by chance last autumn while excavating a mysterious ditch known as the Dry Moat that encircles the step pyramid of King Djoser, the earliest such construction in Egypt. The team was working near its previous discovery, the tomb of an ancient vizier named Merefnebef, when the facade of the other’s tomb was suddenly unearthed.
