{"id":527294,"date":"2010-04-14T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-8890123688727505172"},"modified":"2010-04-14T04:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:20:16","slug":"14-graeco-roman-tombs-discovered-in-bahariya-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527294","title":{"rendered":"14 Graeco-Roman tombs discovered in Bahariya oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt State Information Service <\/a><\/p>\n

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Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni announced on April 12, 2010 the discovery of 14 Greco-Roman tombs dated back to 2,300 years at a construction site near al-Baweeti town in al-Baharia Oasis, October 6th Governorate.<\/p>\n

The archaeologists discovered four plaster human masks, a gold fragment decorated with the four sons of the god Horus, as well as coins, clay and glass, said Zahi Hawwas, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.<\/p>\n

A mummy of a woman measuring 97 centimeters, wearing some jewelry and covered with colored plaster depicting a Roman costume, was also found.<\/p>\n

The tombs were unearthed in an area where a youth center was to be built in a village there, Sabri Abdel-Aziz, the head of the ancient Egyptian antiquities department, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The antiquities department has halted construction at the site, where a large necropolis may exist, he said.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Discovery News<\/a> (Rossella Lorenzi)<\/p>\n

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A bejeweled mummy dressed in Roman robes has emerged from the sands of Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Monday.<\/p>\n

Entombed in a decorated gypsum sarcophagus, the 38-inch tall mummy belonged to a woman or girl who died in the Greco-Roman period about 2,300 years ago.<\/p>\n

Unearthed in a rock-hewn tomb at a modern construction site near the town of Bawiti, in Bahariya Oasis, some 185 miles southwest of Cairo, the mummy points to the existence of a large Greco-Roman necropolis nearby, Mahmoud Affifi, director of Cairo and Giza antiquities, said in a statement.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a Roman mummy entombed in an elaborate sarcophagus at an ancient grave site alongside gypsum masks, the antiquities council said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n

The one metre (three feet) long gypsum sarcophagus portrays a woman dressed in Roman robes and contains a mummified woman or girl who died in the Greco-Roman period about 2300 years ago.<\/p>\n

“We are sure (the mummy) is female. Either she was a small woman, and mummies always shrink, or she could have been a young woman,” Zahi Hawass, chief of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Findings suggest that the tombs might have been part of a much larger necropolis, Egypt’s Culture Ministry said in a Monday statement.<\/p>\n

The female mummy was found in the stair-lined interior of one of the rock-hewn tombs, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

The 97-centemeter tall mummy was cast in colored plaster inlaid with jewelry and eyes.<\/p>\n

Archeologists also found four anthropoid plaster masks, a gold fragment adorned with engravings of the four sons of Horus and a collection of coins, and clay and glass vessels.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Monsters and Critics<\/a><\/p>\n

5-photograph slideshow, with captions.<\/p>\n

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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