An ancient cemetery with 40 mummies inside body-shaped stone coffins and a necklace charm bearing the hieroglyphic inscription 'happy new year' has been found in the Nile Valley, Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has announced.

Also found tombs belonging to priests of Thoth, the ancient god of the moon and wisdom, as well as family members with their names in hieroglyphics.

The burial site, which is more than 2,000 years old, was discovered in the city of Minya, south of Cairo.

The ministry said on Saturday, and is the latestdiscovery in an area known to be home to ancient Egyptian catacombs.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5430077/Archaeologists-ancient-necropolis-Egypt.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Na everyday these people dey find person dey don die. Let the dead have peace please

Na Wa O

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Ancient artefacts are seen in the Egyptian tomb, where excavation work started in late 2017.

Allow these people rest in their peace for God's sake. Wetin na

if na naija they'll tag it ritual site!

Minister of Antiquities Khaled El Anany stands near a stone sarcophagi, discovered in an ancient burial site in Minya.



Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said eight tombs have been discovered so far and expects more to be discovered soon.
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The site includes several burial shafts and as well as more than 1,000 statues and some 40 sarcophagi as well as other artefacts.


Several skulls are seen among the excavations in the ancient cemetery, the latest discovery in an area known to be home to ancient Egyptian catacombs

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An ancient cemetery with 40 mummies inside body-shaped stone coffins and a necklace charm bearing the hieroglyphic inscription 'happy new year' has been found in the Nile Valley, Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has announced.

Also found tombs belonging to priests of Thoth, the ancient god of the moon and wisdom, as well as family members with their names in hieroglyphics.

The burial site, which is more than 2,000 years old, was discovered in the city of Minya, south of Cairo.

The ministry said on Saturday, and is the latestdiscovery in an area known to be home to ancient Egyptian catacombs.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5430077/Archaeologists-ancient-necropolis-Egypt.html

Im exploring with explorer! Where else would i want to be! The boss is on point! ALWAYS!

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Mr. Explorer is exploring the world!!

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I don't have anything good to comment.

so this is where they got the concept of the movie THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY RETURNS

sirgalahad26:
if na naija they'll tag it ritual site!

So what is it before? You think sey we do half the rituals these Muslims countries dey do? I mean no disrespect to Muslims but it's just the wey it is, Na so I talk am.

For an Egyptian mummy to proceed into after-life based on their belief, they perform certain rituals oo, becos they belief you live on even after death. Pharaoh had magicians even in biblical days who will conjure anything. The shaving of pharaoh head, Isn't that ritual enuf?

junnyjake:
Allow these people rest in their peace for God's sake. Wetin na

That's the reason why we are the way we are in this country, always lazy to do anything and always allow things to be as they are while we pray to God to discover things or change things for us. We might have hundreds this stuffs under our grounds which can improve our tourism ministry but no creative ideas to look deep into our history.

laribari:


So what is it before? You think sey we do half the rituals these Muslims countries dey do? I mean no disrespect to Muslims but it's just the wey it is, Na so I talk am.

For an Egyptian mummy to proceed into after-life based on their belief, they perform certain rituals oo, becos they belief you live on even after death. Pharaoh had magicians even in biblical days who will conjure anything. The shaving of pharaoh head, Isn't that ritual enuf?

. . . . and who told you Egypt was a Muslim country or Egyptians were Muslims thousand of years ago? Read, read, Nigerians read!!!!

Egypt the home of mummies

That is the disadvantage of occupation. They don't care whether the graves of the dead are desecrated because they don't have any relationship with them.

The Chinese tried that here and they had to stop after they faced the wrath of the people.

These pictures are beautiful

Why r dey nt allowing d dead to RIP
All dey do is exhume and look for cemetery and most of dem ve made so much money digging grave and displayin bone

most of these tombs are Cursed. Excavate and Steal at your own peril

laribari:


So what is it before? You think sey we do half the rituals these Muslims countries dey do? I mean no disrespect to Muslims but it's just the wey it is, Na so I talk am.

For an Egyptian mummy to proceed into after-life based on their belief, they perform certain rituals oo, becos they belief you live on even after death. Pharaoh had magicians even in biblical days who will conjure anything. The shaving of pharaoh head, Isn't that ritual enuf?

Now ,the reason you be professor Dumbo of the week ,the ancient Egyptians were never Muslims . The practiced their own religion squarely. Dont be here eulogising rubbish

Let d dead rest abeg

archeologist and dead things

So what will they do about it, age analysis?

Just hope they don't dig up one wicked pharaoh and his legion on magic.

I wonder if these scientists go for spiritual cleansing after they leave all these ancient burial chambers because some of them are seriously jazzed up

junnyjake:
Allow these people rest in their peace for God's sake. Wetin na

it is a multi-billion -dollar industry. It attracts tourists and foreign exchange to the Egyptian economy. They won't give it up ooooo. It is like the oil industry in Nigeria. Everybody likes to be part of it