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Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) announced that they discovered a storeroom housing 22 ancient mummies.

Storeroom which contains 22 mummies is about 2.600 years old and it is found in necropolis of Saqqara, at the south of Cairo.

Egypt's top archaeologist Zahi Hawass said that tomb was located at the bottom of 10-meter deep shaft.

Mummies were laid in niches along the tomb's walls.

It is believed that those mummies are from period of 640 B.C. when 26th Dynasty ruled Egypt.

There were also 8 sarcophagi. Scientists opened only one of them and found mummy inside it.

The identity of those mummies is not revealed. Scientists also didn't found the reason why the 22 mummies were stored in a single room.