Luxor Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/luxor/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Luxor Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/luxor/ 32 32 Vast new necropolis found in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings https://jjcornish.com/2014/04/vast-new-necropolis-found-in-egypts-valley-of-the-kings/ Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/04/vast-new-necropolis-found-in-egypts-valley-of-the-kings/ A vast necropolis with some 50 mummies, including pharaonic royalty, has been discovered in Egypt’s famed Valley of the Kings near the temple city of Luxor, officials said yesterday. Archaeologists, including experts from the University of Basel in Switzerland, found wooden sarcophagi, death masks and canopic jars used to store organs removed during the embalming […]

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]]> A vast necropolis with some 50 mummies, including pharaonic royalty, has been discovered in Egypt’s famed Valley of the Kings near the temple city of Luxor, officials said yesterday. Archaeologists, including experts from the University of Basel in Switzerland, found wooden sarcophagi, death masks and canopic jars used to store organs removed during the embalming process. The mummies included newborn babies.

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