The world’s most famous archaeological magazine, Archaeology, announced that the mummification workshop found in Saqqara in July was one of the year’s top 10 discoveries, putting the gilded silver mask unearthed throughout the excavation work, on its first 2019 published issue. The mummification workshop contained several burial chambers dating to the Saite-Persian Period (664-404 BC). A tunnel was also discovered in the middle of the workshop, containing several chambers at different depths, each containing dozens of buried mummies, with inscriptions revealing details. The famous gilded silver mask was found above the head, and the eyes are inlaid with calcite, obsidian, and onyx. “A mummy mask of silver and gold is the Ancient Egyptians’ way of transforming the deceased into a god,” he said.

Source: Daily News Egypt December 16, 2018 06:34 UTC