Archaeologists discover a Roman-era mummy

CNN ^ | April 13, 2010 | Stephanie Goldberg

[rdl6989]

A Roman-era mummy was recently unearthed in a Bahariya Oasis cemetery, about 190 miles southwest of Cairo.

The 3-foot-tall female mummy was discovered by Egyptian archaeologists. The figure was found covered with plaster decorated to resemble Roman dress and jewelry, said Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities in a press release Monday.

In addition to the female mummy, the Supreme Court of Antiquities said archaeologists found clay and glass vessels, coins, anthropoid masks and 14 Greco-Roman tombs.

Director of Cairo and Giza Antiquities Mahmoud Affifi, the archaeologist who led the dig, said the tomb has a unique design with stairways and corridors, and could date to 300 B.C.

[rdl6989]

[rdl6989]

Ping.

[skr]

very interesting.

[bushpilot1]

thanks for posting..

[married21]

I wasn’t expecting such a real, pleasant, face. Wow.

[afraidfortherepublic]

THREE feet tall? Did they chop off her legs, or is this a child?

[afraidfortherepublic]

ping

[Palter]

An undated handout picture made available on 12 April 2010 by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities shows a sarcophogus unearthed by an Egyptian archaeological mission at a site in Bahariya Oasis, Egypt. The one-metre-long gypsum sarcophogus that has been found in one of 14 recently discovered Graeco-Roman tombs dating to the third century BC, portrays a lady dressed in Roman robes and contained the mummy of woman or girl who died about 2,300 years ago. The tombs were found as a result of excavation works in an area allocated for the construction of a youth centre for Al-Hara village at Bahariya Oasis, near Bawiti city.

[DryFly]

That's one good lookin' mummy.

[rdl6989]

THREE feet tall? Did they chop off her legs, or is this a child?

Maybe somebody here knows the average height for adult females in the Roman era?

[rdl6989]

I’m thinking it’s a child.

[Lockbar]

A mummy in Egypt? All I can say is WOW!

[sueuprising]

What is fascinating about this sarcophagus is how life like it is. The pose is natural, and the face is smiling. The features of the face are very interesting as well as they are very European looking. This must have been a child or a young teen as I have never read of any ancient being only 3 feet tall as an adult. Note the snake head band indicative of the pagan symbol for life. What a find!

[afraidfortherepublic]

Maybe somebody here knows the average height for adult females in the Roman era?

My husband's Italian female relatives were short, but not THREE feet.

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

Is not that the sarcophagus we see? It contains the mummy

[married21]

I don’t know, maybe. The article says the mummy was covered with plaster, which made me think it was directly in contact with the mummy. I thought a sarcophagus was more like a box or coffin, and you could lift off the top like a lid. (Maybe I shouldn’t get my mummy knowledge from the movies.)