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Egyptian team finds trove of ancient artifacts

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson

The most famous of all gold mummy masks discovered in Egypt is the funeral mask of King Tutankhamun (circa 1332-1323 BC), which is part of The Egyptian Museum Collection. Image by Jon Bodsworth.
The most famous of all gold mummy masks discovered in Egypt is the funeral mask of King Tutankhamun (circa 1332-1323 BC), which is part of The Egyptian Museum Collection. Image by Jon Bodsworth.
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities says that one of its teams has found a cache of artifacts dating to roughly 600 B.C. in a northern Nile Delta province of the country.

Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim says in a statement Sunday that the team found 43 amulets, a gold-plated mummy mask and nearly 600 small funerary statues inside a pharaonic cemetery in the northern Dakahliya province. Archaeologists also found a cartouche engraved with the name of King Psammeticus I, a pharaoh from the 26th dynasty, the statement said.

According to the statement, one of the amulets is special because it depicts a trinity of three Ancient Egyptian gods — Amun, Horus and Nephthys. Head of Antiquities Ali Al-Asfar says that archaeologists also uncovered two other tombs in the area.

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The most famous of all gold mummy masks discovered in Egypt is the funeral mask of King Tutankhamun (circa 1332-1323 BC), which is part of The Egyptian Museum Collection. Image by Jon Bodsworth.
The most famous of all gold mummy masks discovered in Egypt is the funeral mask of King Tutankhamun (circa 1332-1323 BC), which is part of The Egyptian Museum Collection. Image by Jon Bodsworth.