{"id":23190,"date":"2018-11-25T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23190"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:23:11","slug":"egyptians-open-coffin-revealing-3000-year-old-mummified-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23190","title":{"rendered":"Egyptians open coffin revealing 3,000-year-old mummified woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56.5\">\n<p><cite class=\"Paragraph__cite\">(CNN) \u2014 <\/cite><span>Egyptian authorities for the first time on Saturday opened the sarcophagus of a mummified woman dating back 3,000 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was one of two ancient coffins found earlier this month by a French-led mission near El-Asasef, close to the famed Valley of the Kings archeological site in south eastern Egypt, Reuters reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both had mummies inside, said the report, adding that the first sarcophagus had already been opened and examined by Egyptian antiquities officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage__component\" readability=\"10\">\n<div class=\"Image__component CaptionedImage__image Image__hasAspectRatio\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com\/cnn\/e_blur:500,q_auto:low,w_50,c_fill,g_auto,h_28,ar_16:9\/http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F181125152241-mummy.jpg\" alt=\"Officials open the sarcophagus in the city of Luxor, southern Egypt.\"><\/div>\n<p>Officials open the sarcophagus in the city of Luxor, southern Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>KHALED DESOUKI\/AFP\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The second well-preserved mummy was found in a tomb also containing five colored masks and around 1,000 statutes, said Egyptian authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Workers removed 300-meters of rubble over five months to reach the tomb which also featured colorful paintings on the ceiling.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage__component\" readability=\"9\">\n<div class=\"Image__component CaptionedImage__image Image__hasAspectRatio\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com\/cnn\/e_blur:500,q_auto:low,w_50,c_fill,g_auto,h_28,ar_16:9\/http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F181125152745-statutes-egypt.jpg\" alt=\"Carved wooden statues were also found in the tomb. \"><\/div>\n<p>Carved wooden statues were also found in the tomb. <\/p>\n<p>KHALED DESOUKI\/AFP\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 Egyptian authorities for the first time on Saturday opened the sarcophagus of a mummified woman dating back 3,000 years. It was one of two ancient coffins found earlier this month by a French-led mission near El-Asasef, close to the famed Valley of the Kings archeological site in south eastern Egypt, Reuters reported. Both&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}