The discovery is located at the Sacred Animal Necropolis in Saqqara. It is here where many announcements of archeological discoveries were made along the past two years, by experts of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The most important of these discoveries were the gorgeously decorated tomb of Wahti and the cachette of the sacred birds and animals from which many animal mummies—some extremely rare—were brought to light.

Work began here in April 2018, and it is still ongoing. In April 2020, the project is now in its third season. A shaft measuring 120 x 90 centimeters 11 meters deep has been found, at the bottom of which five sealed stone coffins/sarcophagi, four niches in a room containing wooden coffins and Late Period human burials were uncovered.

A massive anthropoid wooden coffin bearing hieroglyphs written in yellow pigment was discovered in one of these niches. Other objects were discovered around this coffin, including:

365 faience ushabti figurines, some of which bear hieroglyphs texts;

A small wooden obelisk about 40 centimeters tall, all four of its sides bearing painted scenes depicting the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, and the god Horus;

Wooden statues of the god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris; Three pottery canopic jars in which the viscera removed during mummification were kept, in addition to many other artifacts.

All the small artifacts were removed from the shaft so they can undergo restoration before being stored in the Ministry’s magazines.