17 mummies discovered in central Egypt
CAIRO: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in catacombs in Minya province, south of Cairo, the antiquities ministry announced on Saturday.
"We found catacombs containing a number of mummies," said Salah al-Kholi, a Cairo University professor of Egyptology who headed the mission that made the discovery in the Touna el-Gabal district of the province in central Egypt.
Burial shafts were found in the area and excavation work "revealed that these shafts led to a number of corridors inside a cachette of…