World IN BRIEF : EGYPT : 4,200-Year-Old Tomb Found Near Cairo

Archeologists digging in the shadows of Egypt’s pyramids said they have found the 4,200-year-old tomb of a pharaoh’s minister, possibly part of a much larger and previously unknown cemetery. The tomb complex lies in a stretch of desert about a mile from the “unfinished pyramid” at Abu Sir, about 12 miles south of Cairo. Czech archeologist Miroslav Verner said his team had so far uncovered two funeral chapels in the complex, both with finely painted and engraved false doors through which the souls of the dead were believed to pass on their journey to the afterlife. Under one chapel they found a burial chamber and six burial pits, around 50 feet deep, where members of the minister’s family may have been buried.