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
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Who found these mummies?

• French Archeologists
• Egyptian Archeologists

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When were they found?

• Found on Tuesday
• April 27th
• From the Ptolemaic period

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Where?

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

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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