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Egypt unveiled Monday a sarcophagus of a senior royal official from over 3,200-years ago at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, the latest in a series of spectacular discoveries in the area. A team of Egyptian archaeologists from Cairo University found the red granite sarcophagus of Ptah-em-uya, “a high-ranking official” under Rameses II, who ruled Egypt in the 13th century BC, the antiquities ministry said. The noble was “royal secretary, chief overseer of cattle, head of the treasury of the Ramasseum,” Rameses’ funerary temple in the Theban necropolis at Luxor, said Mostafa Wazir…