Valley of the Golden Mummies
- Valley of the Golden Mummies
The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt; discovered by Dr. Zahi Hawass in 1996. Dr. Zahi Hawass with his Egyptian team found around 250 mummies in several seasons; however the site has more than this number - according to the excavator even more than 10,000. [ [http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/golden.htm The Discovery of the Valley of the Mummies] by Zahi Hawass.] The site dates to Greco-Roman Egypt.
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* [http://guardians.net/hawass/mummy-main.htm Official website]
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