Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Mummy Of A 'Tiny, Wide-Eyed Woman' Discovered In Egyptian Oasis

A gypsum mask unearthed alongside a sarcophagus recently discovered in Bahariya

From The Daily Mail:

Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a tiny, wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly uncovered complex of tombs at a remote desert oasis.

It is the first Roman-style mummy found in Bahariya Oasis some 186 miles southwest of Cairo, said archaeologist Mahmoud Afifi, who led the dig.

The find was part of a cemetery dating back to the Greco-Roman period containing 14 tombs.

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