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Mummies in newly discovered tomb in Egypt
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-02-11 23:27

Human remains are found by Egyptian archaeologists at the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, one of the earliest large stone structures in the world, February 11, 2009. Egyptian archaeologists have found about 30 mummies and at least one unopened sarcophagus in a burial chamber about 4,300 years old, the government said. [Agencies]