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Phar-old gal found

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Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo — a finding that suggests other undiscovered tombs could be nearby.

Princess Shert Nebti’s burial site is surrounded by the tombs of four high officials from the Fifth Dynasty dating to around 2500 BC in the Abu Sir complex near the famed step pyramid of Saqqara, according to Mohammed El-Bialy, who heads the Egyptian and Greco-Roman Antiquities department at the Antiquities Ministry.

“Discoveries are ongoing,” El-Bialy said, adding that the excavation is in a very early stage and that the site is closed to the public.

The archaeologists from the Czech Institute of Egyptology made the discovery weeks after the Egyptian government reopened a pyramid and a complex of tombs that had been closed for restoration work for a decade.