How many mummies have been discovered

For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. Share this —. Follow NBC News. By Charlene Gubash and Adela Suliman. Charlene Gubash. Hieroglyphs revealed that it belonged to Khuwy, a relation of the royal family who lived over 4, years ago. So her initial reaction was: this is definitely not Old Kingdom.

But over the course of the investigation she started to come round [to the idea]. Ancient embalmers bathed bodies in expensive resins from tree sap, preserving the flesh before they wrapped the corpse.

This mummy is impregnated with high-quality resins and wrapped in the highest-grade of bandages. A scientist examines the Khuwy mummy, discovered in Although the site was long considered unlikely to hold royal remains, it harbored at least eight royal princesses and four princes, as well as foreigners to the court of the long-vanished pharaohs.

The remains of pharaohs of the era have also been discovered in other tombs, and analysis of their ancient DNA may reveal family relations among the royal children. The discovery should shed light on social distinctions and mummification practices for the royal of that era. The archaeologists weren't the first visitors to the tomb. Members of a priestly family from the 9th century B. But the smashed remains attest to looters sacking the tomb in antiquity and later in the 19th century, Bickel says.

The tomb walls and much of its contents have a heavy coating of soot, which was probably left by the torches of grave robbers. In , Bickel's team also discovered KV 64 , the first new tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings since Howard Carter 's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in Our work is ahead in the lab," Bickel says.

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