They find a mummy covered in gold leaf that could be “the oldest” in Egypt

They find a mummy covered in gold leaf that could be “the oldest” in Egypt

An Egyptian excavation team announced this Thursday the discovery of an intact sarcophagus containing a mummy covered with gold leaf in a 15-meter-deep well...

Mummy covered with gold leaves found in a well in Egypt

Sarcófago intacto que continha uma múmia coberta de folhas de ouro pertence a um homem chamado Heka Shepes é uma importante descoberta arqueológica datada da 5.ª e 6.ª dinastias do Império Antigo.

Gold-covered mummy may be the oldest ever found in Egypt

In addition to the over 4.3 thousand year-old mummy covered in gold, three other corpses and a variety of statues were found

Mummy covered with gold leaves found in a well in Egypt

It is a large rectangular limestone sarcophagus belonging to a man named Heka-Shepes

Mummy covered with gold leaves found in a well in Egypt. See the images

An Egyptian excavation team also found another well, about 10 meters long, which contained a set of wooden statues and three stone statues representing a person named Fetek.

They find a mummy covered in gold leaf in a well in Egypt

An intact sarcophagus containing a gold-coated mummy is found in a well in Saqqara