Bakhariyadolins oasis of Gold mummies
In May, 1996 the donkey of 1 of watchmen of the temple of Alexander has got a hoof to a hole in the desert as a result of what his owner has found the hugest storage of mummies ever found in Egypt. The following researches have shown that the necropolis occupies 10 square km and in it there can be 10 open companies of the mummies placed in family crypts. While certain are simply twirled in a fabric, others were in the terracotta coffins topped with human persons, their bodies are covered with a cardboard, and persons plaster masks. Gold mummies have grasped imagination of public, television networks have offered 3 million dollars for film shootings when opening the funeral chamber in 1999. Coins and other artefacts buried together with mummies, show that they occur from the Greek-Roman times when the oasis which the elite from expatriates governed, was the prospering exporter of wine and grain.
Hopes that the analysis of DNA will allow to find an ethnic origin of mummies, have been called into question by Dr. Eskander - the first researcher - the medicolegal professional who has been dismissed then. He declared that parts of bodies have been mixed and counted incorrectly, having increased number buried, and that bodies have been so badly mummified that they has reincarnated simply in skeletons and an organic dust which from the scientific point of view actually cost nothing. Almost everything was, but, is defined: for example, middle age of the deads (35-40 years), and during the last opening of a tomb which has been removed by television (in 2004) 20 more mummies have been taken, having finished total number found to 234. As experience has shown that the most part of mummies starts to break up to a descent after extraction from a grave, during the current time they remain on own place. This respect to dead as doctor Havass who watches the subsequent excavation in the plain says. Its book about Gold mummies remains the last word in this subject with the charming description of that from itself represent excavation of the place covered with mummified corpses.
The main site of excavation in «the Kilogram Setta» (KM 6) is out of reach for tourists though certain hotels can "agree" about their visit for a certain sum. It is better to refrain from it and gratuitously to have a look these places on сайтахwww. guardians. net/egypt иwww. mummytombs. com.
