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Cairo Hosts Real Mummy Parade For National Museum of Egyptian Civilization Opening
To commemorate the opening of Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies were carefully paraded across the city in elaborately decorated, oxygen-free nitrogen capsules alongside costumed performers. The …
Via vice.com
27 Sarcophagi Discovered South of Cairo
Found in the mass burial ground known as Saqqara, 27 unopened 2,500-year-old sarcophagi tease the possibility of many more. They were found in shafts as deep as 30 feet below surface level …
Via smithsonianmag.com
Portrait of a Goddess Found in a 3,000-Year-Old Coffin
Inside 3,000-year-old mummy Ta-Kr-Hb’s coffin (which hadn’t been moved or surveyed in a century) archaeologists from Scotland’s Perth Museum and Art Gallery uncovered a stunning series of paintings she was buried with. …
Via dazeddigital.com
Oldest Tattoos Discovered on 5,000-Year-Old Mummies
In a discovery that has “pushed back evidence for tattooing in Africa by over 1,000 years,” researchers at the British Museum have found the world’s oldest tattoos on 5,000-year-old mummies. These figurative …