Egypt unveils animal mummies of lion cubs, crocodiles, birds

SAQQARA, Egypt - Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities on Saturday revealed details of recently discovered animal mummies, including two lion cubs as well as several crocodiles, birds and cats.

Items from the new find were displayed at a makeshift exhibition at the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, south of Cairo, near where mummies and other artifacts thousands of years old have been found in a vast necropolis.

"We are finding here hundreds of objects," said Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany. "All of them are very interesting from the Egyptological point of view to know better this area."