40 new mummies found in Egypt (photos)

Nina Golgowski (huffingtonpost.com); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Unique tomb discovered in Egypt. It's "one-of-a-kind," reports Reuters (Patrick Werr).

PHOTOS: Ancient "one of a kind" tomb unveiled in Egypt

Newly discovered mummies wrapped in linen are seen in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era at the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt’s southern Minya province (Mohamed El-Shahed/Getty Images).

Archaeologists discover 40 mummies in Egyptian burial chambers

Mummies (Mohamed El-Shahed/Getty)

The mummies, believed to have belonged to an upper-middle-class family, were found in “good conservation condition.”

 

A “maze of tombs” containing dozens of mummies has been unearthed at an ancient burial site in Upper Egypt, officials said.
 

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More than 40 mummies suspected of belonging to an upper-middle-class family were recently found in the Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site in Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany said on Saturday.
 

3000-year-old mummy revealed in sarcophagus

The family, which included at least 10 children, is believed to have lived during the Ptolemaic, early Roman, or Byzantine period, which dates back to 323-30 BCE. More + PHOTOS

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