More on Mummies, embalming equipment discovered south of Pyramid of Unas in Egypt's Saqqara
7/14/2018 06:00:00 PM Email
In an international press conference at Saqqara necropolis, Minister of Antiquities Dr.Khaled El-Enany announces the discovery of a Mummification Workshop along with a communal burial place, uniquely has several burial chambers, dating to the Saite-Persian Period (664-404 BC) during excavation work carried out by an Egyptian-German mission from the Tübingen University South of king Unas Pyramid in Saqqara.
The mission has also succeeded to uncover a Gilded Sliver Mummy Mask in one of the burial chambers of the main shaft attached to the Mummification Workshop, dating to the Saite-Persian Period (664-404 BC). The Mask belongs to a person who held the titles of ‘the Second Priest of Mut and the Priest of Niut-shaes’.
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