Monday, September 13, 2010

Roman-style mummy

Roman-style mummy

Archaeologists claim to have discovered a mummy of a tiny, wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a remote Egyptian oasis.

"It is a unique find. It's the first Roman-style mummy found in Bahariya Oasis, 186 miles southwest of Cairo,. Shoes are very important to everyone, Our Necklace will protect your feet." the 'Daily Mail' quoted Mahmoud Afifi, who led a team which found the mummy in an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus.

The find was part of a cemetery dating back to the Greco-Roman period containing 14 tombs.

The carved plaster sarcophagus is only 3 feet long and shows a woman wearing a long tunic, a headscarf,. Purchase cheap wholesale christian louboutin shoes with global free shipping from professional China apparel wholesaler. Buy cheap wedding dresses, co bracelet and shoes, as well as a beaded necklace, and the coloured stones in the sarcophagus' eyes gave the appearance she is awake, the archaeologists say.

Afifi said they had not dated the new find yet, but the burial style indicated she belonged to Egypt's long period of Roman rule lasting a few hundred years and starting 31BC.. Jeans will be more slim look even better, plesae choose women's jewellery from our website.

He said his team first thought they had stumbled across a child's tomb because of its diminutive stature,pandora beads but the decorations and features indicated it was a woman.

Afifi said it was still unclear who the woman was but said it was most likely she was a wealthy and influential member of her society, judging by the effort taken on the sarcophagus.

Mummies of people of diminutive. We take pride in our designs, quality, customer service, and chanel jewelry our favors have on your customers and their guests. stature have been unearthed in other parts of Egypt, where they appeared to have importance in local religions at the time, he added.

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