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Mummies found in newly discovered tomb in Egypt
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-02-10 09:18

 


Undated handout photo shows mummies uncovered by Egyptian archaeologists at a site in the desert on the western side of the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. Egyptian archaeologists have found about 30 mummies and at least one unopened sarcophagus in a burial chamber about 4,300 years old, the government said in a statement on Monday. [Agencies]