Egypt
I must say I am suspicious that this is an old story making its rounds again but I have been wrong before.
Archaeologists working in the Fayum have found a cemetery dating to the second dynasty as well as many tombs which contained intact mummies and funerary equipment from many different eras including the New kingdom.
The archaeologists were expecting to find tombs particularly dated to the Middle kingdom to the reign of Senwosret II. The picture shown is of a mummy of the late period perhaps twenty second dynasty.
- In The Field: More Re Saqqara Discoveries
RedOrbit Archaeologists hope to learn more about Egypt's middle class from two 2,500 year old tombs dug up near Cairo, according to Reuters. The tombs were found near the entrance to the archaeological site at the Saqqara burial ground. Dating from...
- Mummies Found In Ancient Egypt Burial Chamber
drhawass.com With photograph A necropolis consisting of 53 rock-cut tombs dating to the Middle (ca. 2061-1786 BC) and New (ca. 1569-1081 BC) Kingdoms and the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission sponsored...
- Egypt Discovers 2,600 Year-old Mummy At Saqqara Burial Site
Google / Associated Press Inside the chamber, 22 mummies lay covered only by sand in four niches dug into the chamber's walls. Most were badly decomposed, showing only skulls and parts of skeletons, with decayed mummy wrappings. The sarcophagi were...
- More Re Newly Discovered Storeroom Containing Mummies
Sky News Underneath the Meresamun story there's a 36-slide photograph viewer showing 7 photographs of Hawass with one of the mummies from the new discovery. The other photographs concern other subjects. Yahoo! News A storeroom housing about two...
- Mummies And Masks
This is the recent discovery of mummies in middle kingdom tombs but the picture here is particularly nice though the mummy pictured is probably of dynasty 22. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=31444...
Egypt
Mummy Find
I must say I am suspicious that this is an old story making its rounds again but I have been wrong before.
Archaeologists working in the Fayum have found a cemetery dating to the second dynasty as well as many tombs which contained intact mummies and funerary equipment from many different eras including the New kingdom.
The archaeologists were expecting to find tombs particularly dated to the Middle kingdom to the reign of Senwosret II. The picture shown is of a mummy of the late period perhaps twenty second dynasty.
- In The Field: More Re Saqqara Discoveries
RedOrbit Archaeologists hope to learn more about Egypt's middle class from two 2,500 year old tombs dug up near Cairo, according to Reuters. The tombs were found near the entrance to the archaeological site at the Saqqara burial ground. Dating from...
- Mummies Found In Ancient Egypt Burial Chamber
drhawass.com With photograph A necropolis consisting of 53 rock-cut tombs dating to the Middle (ca. 2061-1786 BC) and New (ca. 1569-1081 BC) Kingdoms and the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission sponsored...
- Egypt Discovers 2,600 Year-old Mummy At Saqqara Burial Site
Google / Associated Press Inside the chamber, 22 mummies lay covered only by sand in four niches dug into the chamber's walls. Most were badly decomposed, showing only skulls and parts of skeletons, with decayed mummy wrappings. The sarcophagi were...
- More Re Newly Discovered Storeroom Containing Mummies
Sky News Underneath the Meresamun story there's a 36-slide photograph viewer showing 7 photographs of Hawass with one of the mummies from the new discovery. The other photographs concern other subjects. Yahoo! News A storeroom housing about two...
- Mummies And Masks
This is the recent discovery of mummies in middle kingdom tombs but the picture here is particularly nice though the mummy pictured is probably of dynasty 22. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=31444...