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  • Valley of the Golden Mummies

  • Valley of the Golden Mummies

    The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, dating to the Greco-Roman period. Approximately two hundred fifty mummies were recovered over the period of several seasons in the site.
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    Valley of the Golden Mummies
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    4th Century BC

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