I came here about three days ago and I opened one coffin and I saw the sealed limestone sarcophagus. I could not sleep, I was thinking about it all the time! Thinking about the moment that I would come down about 11 meters and begin to open a sealed sarcophagus that no one ever touched since 2600 years ago.
If a mummy was inside a limestone sarcophagus, it mean this person is rich, because how can you afford to cut a limestone sarcophagus from Tora, which is located to the East of the Nile? This is very expensive.
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When you open something like that, it's so exciting that you have to do it by yourself to feel that. The mummy is saved beautifully, in a good preservation. And really what I believe, we are going to take this mummy and put it under an X-ray and CAT scan machine, because inside most of the mummies of this period, were hidden amulets, and sometimes there could be 100 pieces of gold. The amulets were put them inside and this can help the deceased to go safely to the afterlife.
Coming to this room, looking at 30 mummies, looking at 4 mummies in the corner and seeing one of them buried his dog beside him, and also a coffin of a child. Opening this wooden anthropoid coffin for the first time and looking at the mummy. And finally you come to the sealed large, big, 10 ton limestone sarcophagus... And we opened it and we looked inside to discover a mummy. It is a beautiful moment in my life.
When the workmen were moving the lid, I was putting my eyes inside looking at the unknown. And when I saw a mummy in that beautiful condition, I was so happy. And this why it is something with a passion. The passion that I have for archaeology.
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