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Tomb find

Sunday 23 May 1993 00:02 BST
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ABU SIR, EGYPT (Reuter) - Archaeologists have found a 3,200-year-old underground tomb near the Pyramids of Giza and say it might be part of an entire previously-unknown necropolis. 'We are in front of a very big discovery,' the director of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation, Mohammed Ibrahim Bakr, said outside the tomb near the village of Abu Sir. The tomb was built for Nakh-Min, 'overseer of chariots' and 'messenger to foreign lands' for the Pharaoh Ramses II.

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