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Undisturbed Tomb found in the Valley of the Kings

Posted by Zonk on from the i-call-dibs! dept.

akahige writes "Hot on the heels of the recent news about the death of King Tut comes a new story about the discovery of an unlooted and previously unopened 18th Dynasty tomb in the Valley of the Kings. American archaeologists found five mummies resting in sarcophagi, funerary masks, and coptic storage jars. It is the first such discovery since Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922."

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  1. breaking news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    A bit behind current news, aren't we? - this has been reported for two days now...

  2. Re:Ooh er. Coptic by jejones · · Score: 4, Informative

    Coptic is the surviving language closest to ancient Egyptian, if memory serves. I think the poster meant "canopic" jars, the jars where the Egyptians would put the organs that they took out of the body being mummified.

  3. Mummie, come back! by Ancient_Hacker · · Score: 3, Informative
    This modern attitude about mummies is really different. Back a few centuries ago, Egypt was apparently just swarming with mummies all over the place. So many that for a while they were being used as steam locomotive fuel.

    I imagine they got pretty blase about tossing mummies into the firebox.:

    Aw shucks, this load is mostly skinny servants, we'll be lucky to get one MPM (mile per mummy) from these.