/ 23 May 2000

NE-HUNDRED MUMMIES UNEARTHED OUTSIDE CAIRO

A TEAM of Egyptian archaeologists working in the Valley of the Mummies on the outskirts of Cairo, has discovered 100 more gold-encased bodies. Team leader Zahi Hawass said the mummies have been found intact in seven newly uncovered tombs at the ancient necropolis where 200 mummies were found last year and which is expected to reveal some 10000 more. The vast cemetery, located in Bahariya oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert, dates back to the Greco-Roman era, about 330 B.C. to 400 A.D.