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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ruth Michaelson in Cairo

UNCOVERED: Huge egyptian sarcophagus found to contain three mummies | History Defined

Egyptian archeologists have opened a 30-tonne black granite sarcophagus to find three decomposed mummies after sewage water apparently leaked inside.

“The sarcophagus has been opened, but we have not been hit by a curse,” said Mostafa Waziry, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities, in response to news reports warning of maledictions hidden inside the tomb in the port city of Alexandria.

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