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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Ancient Mummy Warehouse Found Deep Beneath Egypt


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In a 2,600-year-old "mummy storehouse" at the bottom of a 36-foot-deep (11-meter-deep) shaft, Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, inspects a stone coffin, or sarcophagus.

Archaeologists announced February 9, 2009, that they had found 30 mummies in the storehouse, located at Saqqara, an ancient royal necropolis.

Photograph courtesy Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities