3000-year-old woman's mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun

THOUSANDS of years ago, Egypt’s royals were laid to rest in the famed Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens, near Thebes (modern day Luxor). Less well-known is the nearby Al-Assasif necropolis, where nobles and senior officials were buried. Now an excavation at the site has revealed two sarcophagi.

In Tomb TT33 (left), archaeologists have found the sarcophagus of a mummy preserved in linen wrappings. The remains are those of a woman who lived more than 3000 years ago during Egypt’s 18th dynasty, the era of King Tutankhamun. The tomb was excavated by a team from the…