Ancient tomb unearthed

Cairo - Japanese archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus of a New Kingdom pharaoh south of Cairo.

Cairo - Japanese archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus of a New Kingdom pharaoh south of Cairo.

The Japanese team said the tomb, buried 15 metres below the ground at Dahshur, about 35 km south of Cairo, probably belonged to a pharaoh of the late 18th Dynasty.