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 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. They hope studying the contents
and layout of the site will reveal new information about the culture of
the first millennium BC.
The site may have been maintained by priests for a particular family or
a worker’s guild
"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..
from New Scientist
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