Archaeologists working at Saqqara have uncovered a roughly 4,400-year-old mastaba tomb belonging to a high-ranking Egyptian official and his father, revealing finely carved agricultural scenes and offering processions that still preserve traces of their original colors.

The tomb dates to the late Fifth Dynasty, during the reign of Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, and was discovered during the 2026 excavation season in the Mariette Necropolis, an extensive burial ground north of Saqqara that has been known to archaeologists since the 19th century but remains far from fully understood. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery on September 7.

The newly investigated monument is a medium-sized mastaba containing two funerary chapels.…