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Lead archaeology workers supervise as their colleagues dig a newly-discovered tomb says tomb dating back to around 1100 B.C. at the Saqqara archaeological site, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said Thursday that the tomb belongs to a guard of the army archives and royal messenger to foreign countries. Ibrahim says the Cairo University Faculty of Archaeology’s discovery at Saqqara adds “a chapter to our knowledge about the history of Saqqara”. Saqqara was the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis and site of the oldest known pyramid in Egypt. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)
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