Three
of the mummies reveal deliberate desecration. Written By/ Nevine El-Aref.
A
team from the Egypt's Mummies Conservation Project has finished restoring a
group of seven mummies in the El-Muzawaa necropolis in Dakhla oasis, completing
the first phase of the project, Gharib Sonbol, head of Ancient Egyptian
restoration projects at the Ministry of Antiquities, told Ahram Online.
The
restoration of Al-Muzawaa necropolis mummies came within the framework of the
project, which launched three years ago by the ministry to preserve and
maintain all mummies stored in Egyptian storehouses.
Aymen
Ashmawi, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities sector at the ministry,
explains that the project started with the conservation of mummies in the
Mostafa Kamel gallery storehouses in Alexandria and at the Alexandria National
Museum, as well as those in the Kom Ushim stores in Fayouom.
According
to Sonbol, the second phase of the project will begin shortly and will involve
the restoration of several more mummies. He
explained that during the recently completed work, the team noted that two
mummies have "screaming" faces, a term used to describe mummies with
open mouths. The hands of a third mummy were bound with rope.
“This
is not the typical form of mummification, but it indicates that those people
were cursed by the god or the priests during their lifetime,” Sonbol said. He
continued that the project offers a great opportunity for restorers to learn
more about the death and life of those mummified people.
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