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A sarcophagus with hieroglyphics on the side is seen inside the well-known Saqqara Serapium, a tunnel of underground tombs, discovered by French archeologist 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. [Agencies]
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