![]() Under the linen, mummies have sticks in both sides in order to maintain rigidity. The coffins and the masks have various different styles: some lack decoration others have a gilded face mask decorated with religious scenes others were cartonnage coffins painted with bright funerary scenes and some mummies were simple wrapped in linen. More than 230 mummies, golden masks, coffins, wooden panels, stelae, papyri were found in niches in the cemetery's tombs. Some of the mummies were encased in gilded or painted coffins and some others wore golden masks and jewelry and were surrounded by their burial goods of wine jars, coins, pottery and amulets for use in the afterlife. The Roman population of Bahariya were laid in rows in multi-chambered family tombs, left undisturbed by robbers, their burials still intact. The cemetery, which is thought to cover an area of around 6 square km, has been estimated by Dr Hawass to contain over 10,000 mummies. ![]() Large, heavy armlets had hoops on the backs that attached to garments to help support their weight. ![]() Dr Zahi Hawass, the director of the excavation project, estimates that the necropolis, with about 6 km2, may contain more than 10,000 mummies. Thailands mummified Buddhist monk on display in Wat Kunaram on Koh Samui island. The ancient Greeks and Romans also wore armlets, which were usually made from bronze or gold, and some of which were in the shape of serpents, winding plants, or embellished with images of gods and goddesses. Discovered by Ashry Shaker in 1996, the valley is considered the most spectacular discovery since the finding of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a Greco-Roman necropolis, located about 6 km from El-Bawiti, the capital of El Bahariya Oasis, in the Western Desert. ![]()
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