A sarcophagus is seen inside the well-known Saqqara Serapium,
a tunnel of underground tombs, discovered by French archeolo-
gist August Mariette in 1850, that has been closed to the public
for repairs for the last ten years at Saqqara, south of Cairo,
Egypt Thursday, June 5, 2008.
Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities,
announced Thursday the discovery of a part of a ceremonial
procession road, dating back to the Ptolemaic period, which ran
for about 300 years before 30 B.C. It runs along from the recently
discovered 'missing' pyramid of obscure pharaoh King Menkauhor
and leads from a mummification chamber toward the Saqqara
Serapium, where sacred bulls were interred.
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
