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Title: Trove of Mummies Uncovered


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Trove of Mummies Uncovered
  • Article can be found here
  • http//www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID
    3563056thesectionnewsthesubsectionworld

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Who found these mummies?
  • French Archeologists
  • Egyptian Archeologists

3
When were they found?
  • Found on Tuesday
  • April 27th
  • From the Ptolemaic period

4
Where?
  • Buried deep in shafts
  • Saqqara, 25 km south of Cairo
  • Near city of Memphis

5
Whats it like down there?
  • A maze of corridors
  • Mummies are everywhere
  • right, left, up, and down
  • Even stacked upon each other

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Mummy Condition
  • More than 50 mummies found
  • Excellent state of preservation
  • Wrapped in linen
  • Sealed inside stone or wooden sarcophagi

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Whats inside the mummies?
  • Some mummies could have things
  • Wrappings could contain gold amulets
  • Possibly hundreds of them
  • This is typical of the period

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Officials on the scene
  • Guy Lecuyot Egyptologist
  • From Frances Centre National de la Recherche
    Scientifique
  • Zahi Hawass Head of Egypts Supreme Antiquities
    Council

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Officials say.
  • Egyptians used these shafts for several centuries
  • One mummy is exceptional
  • State of preservation and style

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The future of the past holds
  • Next week open more sarcophaguses
  • Hopefully find more in great condition
  • Understand more about Pharaonic civilization
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