<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bd742bf0-aa93-492d-92f7-80a1a2b99cb0/801C495D-A7EE-408C-9834-5B9916587ABA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html" href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.findingdulcinea.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.findingdulcinea.com/img/96367030-4562-46F7-87CD-914716B94547" alt="null" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><STRONG>Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass speaks to the media in Saqqara near Cairo, Egypt.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><H1 id="article_capsule_headline">30 Mummies Discovered in Egyptian Tomb</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><DIV id="article_capsule_deck">Egyptian archaeologists uncovered 30 mummies in a 2,600-year-old tomb in the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the most fertile grounds for the discovery of mummies. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><H3 id="dulcinea_section_title_0" class="section_title"> <A href="#0" name="0">Archaeologists Discover “Storeroom” of Mummies</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><DIV> Egyptian archaeologists announced Monday that they had <A href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/02/09/2009-02-09_mummies_discovered_in_2600yearold_tomb_i.html">discovered 22 mummies and eight sarcophagi</A> during excavations at the Saqqara necropolis, located south of Cairo. Most of the findings date back to 640 B.C.E., though one limestone sarcophagus is thought to date back 4,300 years.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/feb/30-Mummies-Discovered-in-Egyptian-Tomb.html"><DIV> The necropolis of Saqqara, where the find was made, has yielded a <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51855D20090209">large number of discoveries over 150 years of excavations</A>, including the discovery in December of two tombs for high officials. It is rare, however, to “find intact burials … because thieves scoured the area in ancient times,” reports Reuters.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/801C495D-A7EE-408C-9834-5B9916587ABA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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