Uncovered mummy announces bigger archeological finds by Zivka Deleva

An important archeological discovery has been found from the sands of Egypt’s remote desert oasis that might prove the existence of a Greco-Roman necropolis in the area. We are talking about a mummy dressed in Roman robes, ornamented with jewelry, placed in a decorated gypsum sarcophagus. As the Supreme Council of Antiquities said, the longitude of the mummy is 38-inch and it is sure that it belonged to a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic who died in the Greco-Roman period, about 2.300 years ago. The mummy was found near in the Bahariya Oasis, near the town of Bawaiti, around 185 miles southwest of Cairo. Later on, the Egyptian archaeologists uncovered 14 Greco-Ro! man tombs dating to the third century B.C, as Mahmoud Affifi, director of Cairo and Giza antiquities, said. All of them are with unique interior design. Affifi is not completely certain about the dating of the mummy, but supposes that according to the burial style, it shows that it belonged to the long period in Egypt, when Romans ruled the country for about few hundred years, since 31 B.C. The scientists will have to clean up who this woman is, but by the first cognizance, she certainly was wealthy and eminent member of her society. Among the discoveries were few anthropoid plastic masks, collection of coins, vessels of different shapes and sizes. The Bahariya Oasis is rich with colonies of palm trees and hot springs, and black hills in the background. On this place, 14 years ago, Dr.Zahi Hawass has discovered 17 tombs with 254 golden masked mummies. Afterwards, this place is cold Valley of the Golden Mummies and it is the biggest Egyptian cemetery ever found, with about! 10.000 mummies.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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