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3500yrs Old Mummy Discovered By Egyptian Archeologists (pics)

Egyptian excavation workers restore a mummy in a newly discovered tomb on Luxor’s West Bank known as “KAMPP 150” during an announcement for the Egyptian Ministry of antiquities about new discoveries in Luxor, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says archaeologists have discovered two ancient tombs in the southern city of Luxor. The ministry said Saturday that one tomb has five entrances leading to a rectangular hall, and contains painted wooden funerary masks, clay vessels and a mummy wrapped in linen. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs, the antiquities ministry said.

The tombs were found across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp.

Since Kampp’s discovery, ‘both tombs were left untouched’ until an Egyptian archaeological mission started work.

 

‘It’s truly an exceptional day,’ al-Anani said.

‘The 18th dynasty private tombs were already known.

But it’s the first time to enter inside the two tombs.’

However, she had only reached the entrance gate and ‘never entered’, the ministry said.

It said that both tombs, which were given numbers by Kampp, were likely to date back to dynasties of the New Kingdom, which lasted several centuries until about 3,000 years ago.

Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani was in Luxor to announce the discovery in Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis near the famed Valley of the Kings, where many pharaohs, including Tutankhamun, were buried.

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