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March 2nd, 2005, 12:15 PM
"Maybe one of the best mummies ever preserved," has been found by accident at Saqqara home of the famous stepped Pyramid and Serapaeum
"The chest of the mummy is covered with beads. Most of the mummies of this period — about 500 B.C. — the beads are completely gone, but this mummy has them all."
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass displayed the finds including one swathed in turquoise blue beads and bound in strips of black linen, at the excavation site in the cemetery of Saqqara, a barren hillside pocked with ancient graves about 15 miles south of Cairo.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050302/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummies_uncovered
"The chest of the mummy is covered with beads. Most of the mummies of this period — about 500 B.C. — the beads are completely gone, but this mummy has them all."
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass displayed the finds including one swathed in turquoise blue beads and bound in strips of black linen, at the excavation site in the cemetery of Saqqara, a barren hillside pocked with ancient graves about 15 miles south of Cairo.
Pictures andstory on >
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050302/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummies_uncovered