Egypt
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- Russian Archaeologists Find Mummies In The Faiyum
NOVOSTI - Russian News and Information Service Russian archaeologists have found well-preserved mummies in Egypt dating to the country's Ptolemaic era, the head of the Russian Academy of Science's Egyptology department announced on Tuesday. "Well-preserved...
Egypt
Russian archeologists discover golden-masked mummies in Egypt
RIA Novosti
Russian archaeologists working at Egypt's Fayoum Oasis have uncovered a number of mummies wearing golden masks, as well as other artifacts of historical value, a Russian Egyptologist said on Wednesday.
A group of Russian archaeologists has been working in the Fayoum province, some 80km southwest of Cairo, since 2003. It has been carrying out excavations at the Deir Al-Banat necropolis for the past two years.
"It is a huge necropolis," said Alexei Krol, deputy chief of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Egyptology center. "Despite the fact that the site was badly robbed in the early Christian period, the Coptic era and in the 1960s-1970s, we are still managing to find mummies with golden masks," he said.
- Photo For Today By Anthony Marson
Water Well, Deir el Medina There is a lot more detail about Deir el Medina, including the water wells, at the "Images of Deir el Medina" website by Lenka and Andy Peakcock (the site is a member of the Egyptological network of the Russian Academy of...
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The Star Egyptian archeologists found the mummies in 53 tombs cut into rock in the oasis of Fayoum, about 80 kilometres southwest of Cairo, said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, in a statement. Four of the...
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National Geographic (Steven Stanek) Four ancient tombs containing well-preserved mummies and ornate painted coffins have been unearthed in El Faiyum, an oasis about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Cairo (see map). (See photos of the tomb treasures.)...
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