Monday, 31. March 2003
Topic: - on March 31, 2003 at 6:32:25 PM CEST
Oldest mummies discovered
Egyptian archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of human mummification after opening a 5,000-year-old wooden coffin discovered in the desert near Cairo.
The bones were covered with a resin used in the mummification process and remnants of skin.
"This is ... the oldest evidence of mummification in Egypt," said Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's council of antiquities.
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