Egyptian antiquities officials said the coffins,

 Egyptian antiquities officials said the coffins, which were placed on display Saturday at the Saqqara necropolis, may are so well-preserved because they were of a better quality and belonged to people of a "higher class." "So this is often something that creates this discovery special -- the number and quality of the coffins," said Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, comparing the findings to a gaggle of coffins discovered at the location a month earlier. Archaeologists opened one among the excavated coffins and therefore the mummy inside was X-rayed to point out how it had been preserved. Waziri told reporters that the X-ray showed the mother was a male between 5 feet 4 and 5 feet 7 inches tall, who was in healthiness during his life and presumably died between the age of 40 and 45 years old. In Egypt the mummies return. But will tourists during a pandemic? The tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anany, said the artifacts, including the statues and mummies, would be moved to many museums across Egypt. El-Anany said archaeologists were continuing to excavate the grounds which this discovery wouldn't be the last, adding that a replacement archaeological finding within the Saqqara necropolis are going to be revealed later this year. The announcement marks the newest during a string of discoveries at Saqqara, which was designated a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1979. Dating back to Egypt's First Dynasty, from around 3150 BC, the vast cemetery once served the royal capital of Memphis, and therefore the site is additionally home to the country's oldest surviving pyramid. In October, researchers discovered an outsized cache of unopened sarcophagi at the location . A month earlier, they announced that they had discovered 13 coffins piled on top of every other during a well. And back in April, they found another batch of mummies, again discovered during a shaft. With global travel hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and tourism forming an integral a part of its economy, Egypt has been wanting to attract visitors back to its archaeological sites. According to research and advisory company Oxford Business Group, the Egyptian tourism industry -- which employs quite a million people -- contributed to over 9% of the country's GDP in 2019.