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<\/em>Archaeologists
\n have discovered an underground maze in Egypt crammed with more than
\n 50 mummies.
\n The buried network was unearthed in Saqqara, 25 kilometres south of Cairo,
\n by a team of Egyptian and French researchers. They hope studying the contents
\n and layout of the site will reveal new information about the culture of
\n the first millennium BC.<\/p>\n
\n a worker’s guild <\/p>\n
\n corridors with mummies everywhere, right and left, up and down. When people
\n came, there was no more space so they put the coffins in the wall, or they
\n cut another shaft, or they put a mummy above a mummy," said Zahi Hawass,
\n head of Egypt’s Supreme Antiquities Council, speaking to Reuters..<\/p>\n