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


Undated handout photo shows one of the mummies recently found by Egyptian archaeologists. Egyptian archaeologists have found of a cache of 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 February 9, 2009. They found the chamber in the desert on the western side of the famous Step Pyramid of Saqqara, one of the earliest large stone structures in the world, dating from about 2,650 BC. [Agencies]