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Finding mummys in 2005. Long live Indiana Jones…

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Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, checks a brilliantly colored mummy dating back more than 2,300 years Tuesday May 3, 2005, at Egypt’s Saqqara Pyramids complex south of Cairo. The unidentified mummy, from the 30th pharaonic dynasty, had been buried by sand in a 6 meter (20 feet) shaft. Hawass, said the mummy will undergo CT scanning before being put on display at a Saqqara museum. (Full Story)