Monday 28 April 2014

Almost 60 royal mummies discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online

Almost 60 royal mummies discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online: A cachet of royal mummies has been unearthed inside a rock-hewn tomb in the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's West Bank, Egypt's antiquities ministry announced on Monday.

The tomb contains almost 60 ancient Egyptian royal mummies from the 18th dynasty along with the remains of wooden sarcophagi and cartonnage mummy masks depicting the facial features of the deceased, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told Ahram Online.

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