The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the success of the Egyptian archaeological mission operating at the mosque of the holy animals "Bobastien" in the area of Saqqqara archaeology in revealing the first and largest ecology of the site dating back to late times during the work of the fourth excavation season of the mission.

Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Head of Mission, said in a statement: "The discovered environment contains 150 bronze statues of various sizes for a number of ancient Egyptian idols, including Anubis, Amon Min, Ozir, Isis, Nefertom, Bastet and Hor.

The elegant also includes a collection of bronze pots for Isis's idol rituals such as pugs, as well as a bronze statue of the engineer Imhotb without a very precise and beautiful head

. My minister added that the mission was also able to uncover a new set of burial wells in which a group of 250 coloured wooden coffins from the late age, about 500 BC, were found. M, closed with mummies in good condition of preservation, as well as a set of amulets and wooden statues, some of which are facial doctrine and colorful wooden boxes.

The Egyptian official pointed out that the excavation works inside one of the burial wells discovered resulted in the disclosure of a casket with a good preservation paper that may contain chapters of the book of the dead. It was transferred to the restoration plant of the Egyptian Museum by editing for sterilization and hydration and study and knowledge of the texts contained therein.

The same discovery included two theoretically colored wooden statues, in a good state of preservation, of the goddess Isis and Naftis in the status of the statutes, as well as finding a burial from the modern state about 1500 BC. EM, it has many decorative tools such as bronze mirror and a set of bracelets, necklaces, earrings and ankles with their own aprons and copper tools for everyday life.

The Egyptian archaeological mission has been in operation at the site since 2018, where it successfully uncovered the unique cemetery of the priest of the fifth family In addition to 7 rocky cemeteries, including three from the modern State and four from the Old State, and a cemetery facade from the Old State, more than a thousand fiance mascots, dozens of wooden cat statues, cat mummies, wooden statues and animal supplements were uncovered.

In addition to the Mission's achievements in 2020, it has successfully uncovered more than 100 wooden coffins closed in their first state of late age inside burial wells, 40 statues of the Saqqara goddess Ptah Suker with gilded parts and 20 wooden boxes of the god Horus.

Archaeology magazine ranked this discovery as one of the 10 most eye-catching archaeological discoveries of 2020.