Mummies galore

Archaeologists have discovered an underground maze in Egypt crammed with more than 50 mummies. The buried network was unearthed in Saqqara, 25 kilometres south of Cairo, by a team of Egyptian and French researchers. . . "It's a maze of corridors with mummies everywhere, right and left, up and down. When people came, there was no more space so they put the coffins in the wall, or they cut another shaft, or they put a mummy above a mummy," said Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council, speaking to Reuters.

The team believes the site was used from about 660 BC to 30 BC

From New Scientist. It's not just the mummies, of course, but the fact that the entire burial complex was found intact.

Posted by David on April 28, 2004 5:43 PM