A 2,500-year-old cache of equipment used to embalm ancient Egyptian mummies has been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Abusir in Egypt.
The discovery was made by a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists close to the location of several ancient Egyptian tombs. Abusir, well known for its necropolis, is just 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Cairo.
The cache includes about 370 large pottery storage vessels; a team of experts is now being assembled to determine what liquids or materials these jars held and how the ancient Egyptians may have used them in the mummification process, Miroslav Bárta, an Egyptology professor at Charles University in the Czech Republic and director of the Abusir mission, told Live Science.
