The sarcophagi weigh over 100 tons. They are made of hard Aswan granite and are highly accurate in terms of engineering tolerances. What can be considered a remarkable achievement today
24 strange and sinister black box coffins have been discovered buried in a hillside cave system 12 miles south of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The skill of stone cutting, down to a few microns, is so remarkable that some experts have concluded that they were not built for the Egyptian pharaohs, but were in fact left on earth by an alien race and were simply appropriated by the kings.
The tombs are believed to be the burial place of the Apis bulls. Apis is the sacred bull of the Egyptians, the god of fertility. The cult center of the god Apis was the city of Memphis - one of the most important religious, administrative and cultural centers of Ancient Egypt.
According to The Express, some hieroglyphs were found on the perfect black boxes, but they are of such poor quality that they are considered graffiti.
The actual purpose and function of the boxes remains unclear, but they were clearly of immense importance as they were carved with precision that allowed them to be sealed for millennia.
The necropolis is known as the Serapeum at Saqqara, in the now abandoned city of Memphis, Egypt.
It remains a mystery how the ancient culture was able to carve such huge and precise sarcophagi.
Formally, the burial site is believed to have been built some 3300 years ago by Ramses II.
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Recent studies show that this is the burial place of the Apes bulls, which were revered as the embodiment of the god Ptah.
Egyptologists claim that since the bulls were revered as the gods of Haemuas, the son of Ramses II ordered a tunnel to be dug in one of the mountains to the burial site and side rooms were created, where huge granite sarcophagi weighing up to 100 tons each would be located, so that mummified remains would be contained there. bulls.
The temple was discovered by Augustus Mariette, who went to Egypt to collect Coptic manuscripts, but later developed an interest in the remains of the necropolis at Saqqara.
In 1850, Mariette found the head of a sphinx sticking out of quicksand, cleared the sand and followed the boulevard to the site.
After using explosives to clear the rocks blocking the entrance to the catacombs, he excavated most of the complex.
