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By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide to Ancient History

The 10,000 Mummies

Tuesday July 3, 2007
An antiquities guard quite literally accidentally stumbled upon a site containing 10,000 Roman mummies buried in the Bahariyya Oasis of Egypt 2000 years ago. The donkey he was riding fell into a hole which turned out to be in the ceiling of a buried tomb.

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