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Egypt finds rare intact mummy near Saqqara pyramid
Nova says,
What a great discovery. I'm sure you agree...even if you aren't as obsessed with all things Egyptian as I am.
Article excerpt from yahoo.com —
"SAQQARA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists found a rare intact Mummy dating to pharaonic times when they opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus on Wednesday in the shadow of the world's oldest standing step pyramid at Saqqara.
The well-preserved Mummy , which escaped plunder by thieves in ancient times, could contain scores of...
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Posted 1 year ago
That's incredibly rare and quite impressive. Although I often wonder what the mummified person would've thought if it had known it would be disinterred and studied 4,000 years after death? Makes me wonder if they'll be digging us up in 4,000 years to study us.
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