The treasure trove also included bronze statues dating back 2,500 years, discovered at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, The Washington Post reported.
“In one of the wooden sarcophagi, we found, for the first time, complete and sealed papyrus,” Mostafa Waziri told reporters, according to the newspaper.
Waziri is the secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The papyrus was taken to a museum for study, but it is believed to be similar to the Book of the Gates and the Book of the Dead, Egyptian funerary texts.
A temporary exhibit has been set up near the Step Pyramid of Djoser, The Associated Press reported. The artifacts will be taken to the Grand Egyptian Museum eventually.
The 150 bronze statues depict Egyptian gods and instruments for various rituals, all dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt, which was about 500 B.C.
Recent finds in Egypt have brought new understanding of the dynasties that ruled Egypt. Some of those discoveries were two mummies with golden tongues that would allow them to “speak in the afterlife” and a 5,000-year-old brewery, the Post reported.
Egyptian discovery Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, and a trove of ancient artifacts recently unearthed, are displayed during a press conference by Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery A reporter films a headless bronze statue of Imhotep, the chief architect of Pharaoh Djoser who oversaw the building of the step pyramid, during a press conference by Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, and a trove of ancient artifacts recently unearthed, are displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery A reporter films painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, speaks during a press conference in front of painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, are displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery A headless bronze statue of Imhotep, the chief architect of Pharaoh Djoser who oversaw the building of the step pyramid, is on display at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery A reporter films painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery An antiquities employee tries to prevents reporters from getting close to painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery A painted coffin with a well-preserved mummy inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, is displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, are displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Recently unearthed ancient artifacts are displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Reporters film painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Recently unearthed ancient artifacts are displayed during a press conference at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery A painted coffin with a well-preserved mummy inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, is displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. Egypt on Monday displayed a trove of ancient artifacts dating back 2,500 years that the country's antiquities authorities said were recently unearthed at the famed necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)
Egyptian discovery Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, and a trove of ancient artifacts recently unearthed, are displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (Amr Nabil/AP)