painted coffins and rare papyri
Luxorcelebrated as the open-air museum ofEgyptenriches its thousand-year-old history with an extraordinary discovery that seems to come out of an adventure novel. At the heart of Qurna necropolison the west bank of the Nile, an Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed 22 finely painted wooden coffinscontaining mummies, as well as a group of rare papyri dating from … Read more