Archaeologists Found a 4,000-Year-Old Tomb. Inside Was a 14-Foot Fake Door to Nowhere.
created: April 24, 2025, 1:30 p.m. | updated: April 30, 2025, 9:32 p.m.
The tomb featured a 14-foot-tall pink granite door that led to... nowhere.
Inside the tomb, the team also found 13 high-backed chairs with pink granite statues—many believed to be the prince’s wives—and two without heads.
In a one-of-a-kind discovery, archaeologists working within the Saqqara necropolis (south of Cairo, Egypt) found a pink granite door inside a tomb standing over 14 feet tall.
The oversized pink door wasn’t the only curious find inside the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re—son of King Userkaf, the founder of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty.
The tomb contained 13 high-backed chairs, each of which featured statues carved out of pink granite.
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