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The discovery of an Egyptian sarcophagus, undisturbed for thousands of years in a burial chamber in Saqqara, south of Cairo, has been hailed a 鈥渄ream discovery鈥� by archaeologists. The granite sarcophagus is covered in inscriptions dedicated to Ptah-em-wia, who headed the treasury of King Ramses II.

Peter Der Manuelian is a professor of Egyptology at Harvard University. He told Newsday that the tomb was originally found in 1859 but had got lost until now. When the tomb was opened 鈥渦nfortunately it was empty. There was just some residue from the mummification process inside, no body - but this is a very important individual and it鈥檚 great to find his tomb again.鈥�

(Picture: The coffin of Ptah-em-wia in its underground burial chamber at Saqqara in Egypt. Credit: Lost Treasures of Egypt/National Geographic.)