Mummy Burial Chamber Found In Egypt

Above, Boris Karloff in The Mummy (1932). Universal Pictures.

Almost as if the gods wanted to help revive Egypt's tourism industry, a burial chamber of mummies has been found.

According to The Japan News (Yomiuri Shimbun):

MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) — Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact, the latest in a string of discoveries that the country’s antiquities minister described as a helping hand from the crypt for its struggling tourism sector. 

The funerary site, uncovered eight meters below ground in Minya, a province about 250 km, south of Cairo, contained limestone and clay sarcophagi, animal coffins, and papyrus inscribed with Demotic script. 

The burial chamber was first detected last year by a team of Cairo University students using radar.

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5,600-Year-Old Tomb and Mummy Found In Egypt

Above, Karloff the Uncanny in The Mummy (1932). Universal Pictures.

After all these years, more mummies are being found in Egypt.

Jiji Press reported:

Archaeologists in southern Egypt have discovered a 5,600-year-old preserved tomb and mummy predating the First Dynasty of the pharaohs, the antiquities ministry said Wednesday. 

The tomb was built before the rule of king Narmer, the founder of the First Dynasty who unified Upper and Lower Egypt in the 31th century BC, the ministry said in a statement. 

The tomb was discovered in the Kom al-Ahmar region, between Luxor and Aswan, on the site of Hierakonpolis, the city of the falcon, which was the dominant pre-dynastic urban centre and the capital of the Kingdom of Upper Egypt.

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