It’s 2020 and so far has been a wonderful year filled with skies full of locusts, hordes of murder hornets, major wildfires burning lots of Aussieland and the western US, An Iranian general was killed with a US drone and almost started WWIII, volcanoes erupting, planes crashing with no survivors, floods killing hundreds in various places, CEO’s Twitter accounts hacked, BLM protests crop up everywhere in the US and the fascists respond violently...oh...and a plague began in the early spring and is still raging throughout the world infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands.
But some archaeologists thought this was a fine time to go opening mummy sarcophaguses…
Dozens of people crowded around on Saturday as archeologists unsealed the first of 59 sealed sarcophagi, which contain the bodies of ancient Egyptian priests who were buried some 2,500 years ago. Some onlookers wore masks but a few did not as they waited to get a look at — and a whiff of — the long-buried priest’s remains.
The first wooden sarcophagus opened revealed the body of a priest wrapped in a cloth painted to resemble the once living priest.
All of the sarcophagi are in perfect condition. They were found this year in the necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo near Memphis, the former seat of Ancient Egypt’s power. The region is home to several pyramids, including the famous Giza Pyramids. The area was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the 1970s.
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Archeologists announced last month that they had found 13 coffins, but many more have been discovered through further exploration of the necropolis. The mummies were entombed in shafts up to 12 metres deep.
Waziri says it’s unclear how many more are inside the necropolis.
There were 28 statuettes of the god of the dead, Anubis uncovered with the sarcophagi along with a jewelled bronze statue of the goddess Nefertum.
The archaeologist are ecstatic with their recent finds of these priests coffins and hope that it invigorates a tourist season that has been severely impacted by … a plague.
There have been no reports of any of the mummies suddenly arising and causing mayhem...yet.
But 2020 isn’t over yet, either.