LAT/AP: Secret Door Reveals Tomb, Well-Preserved Mummies

Secret Door Reveals Tomb, Well-Preserved Mummies
From Associated Press


Two wooden coffins lay open showing the mummies inside at an excavation site in the Saqqara region south of Cairo, where Australian archaeologists have discovered the ancient sarcophagi shaped like human bodies and dating back to the 26th Pharaonic Dynasty, that ruled from 672 BC to 525 BC.
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SAQQARA, Egypt — Archeologists reported Wednesday the discovery of three coffins and a remarkably well-preserved mummy in a 2,500-year-old tomb discovered by accident behind a statue in a separate burial chamber.

An Australian team was exploring a much older tomb — dating back 4,200 years — belonging to a man believed to have been a tutor to the 6th Dynasty King Pepi II, when they moved a pair of statues and discovered a secret door, said Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top antiquities official.

Inside, they found a tomb from the 26th Dynasty with three intricate coffins, each with a mummy.

"Inside one coffin was maybe one of the best mummies ever preserved," Hawass told reporters at the excavation site in the cemetery of Saqqara, a barren hillside pocked with ancient graves about 15 miles south of Cairo.

"The chest of the mummy is covered with beads. Most of the mummies of this period — about 500 BC — the beads are completely gone, but this mummy has them all," he said, standing over one of the mummies that was swathed in turquoise blue beads and bound in strips of black linen....


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around like a new father. :evilgrin:

He's such a spotlight hogging, status-quo enforcing bully. Any theories that don't abide 100% by the tried-and-tired dusty old world order, are simply rubbish. Talk about a teleological mindset.

But at least the sacred places have gotten some much deserved care and attention on his watch. I guess I'll give him that much.

I have found others who despise him quite as much as I do. He's such a mountebank. As far as protection goes, I'm not sure of that. Ever since I saw a show (some years back) where he showed his restoration project, and there was a woman working on a beautiful head (I think Tut but not sure now) who ended up completely destroying it, I have thought him clueless. I have a friend who says a scream was heard throughout the world when she did that.

Egyptian, and will actually groan "oh no, it's Zahi Hawass," and change the channel if he appears on any tv program he might be watching!! LOL

then he became 'World-Renowned' and got too full of himself.

I can not watch the man, as he man handles fragile artifacts, roots through newly opened sarcophagi - in one scene, he lost a tiny gold figurine or amulet in front of the camera and could not find it, well deserved.

lasted 3000 years. Christianity has been around 2000. Time really does change some things. Although, usually it's just names.

Try to get your hands on a copy of "The Pagan Christ" by Tom Harpur if the subject interests you. He is Canadian so you may have to go through Chapters Online. Quite an interesting book.

the same in most respects. Very interesting --

ary on A&E one time about the first Christ. The Jew's first Messiah. He came from where, I can't remember, I wish I could remember the name of the documentary. Anyway, he turned water into wine, he healed the sick, brought the dead to life, his birthday was celebrated on December 25th and he said many a profound thing. He was hailed the Messiah, , until it was found he had left a wife and child from whence he came. The Jews immediately struck him from their records and made like he never existed. I can't remember if he was crucified. Anyway, it was just stunning.

of a virgin in a grotto..healed the sick.. raised the dead..was killed and entombed to rise up to the heavens 3 days later, ad nauseum...)were first attributed to Dionysus, and Mithras, (and probably others) at least a thousand years before being hijacked by Saul of Taurses and his followers.

or just "16 Crucified Saviors," I forget. That's that title of a book written many, many years ago. I've also forgotten the author. Apparently, the Jesus story is a well-known one, possibly even a little overworked. :evilgrin:

a big party. Not associated with any messiahs until centuries after Christ, when the church went about the business of co-opting pagan stuff including holidays.

which I thought was very good. He argues that we should cut through the huge clutter of organized religion and stay close to what Jesus did and taught. He argues that the resurrection did happen but that it was spiritual in nature (Harpur believes in life after death and in the supernatural).

He explores the ideas of all the major current and historical religions on the subject. His writing has evolved, I think, and "The Pagan Christ" gives his most recent viewpoints. He still considers himself a Christian, but as far from a literalist as you can get. In fact, he says the more symbolic interpretation of the Christ story has actually strengthened his faith (by being relieved of the need to believe in the more far fetched aspects like walking on water).

Secret doors, what a trip!

DTH

'Valley of the Golden Mummies' are stunning. I am still upset over the corpratization of the Egyptian exhibits - King Tut - charging outrageous amounts at various museum venues. NYC Metropolitan said nope not us, we will gladly go without staging it!

and got the last admission ticket for the day, which was free!