A mummy stuffed into a coffin dating back to the Ptolemaic Greek period of the ancient Egyptian state

A Russian archaeological mission in Egypt found a mummified mummy inside a coffin dating back to the Ptolemaic Greek period of the ancient Egyptian state, covering the last period BC and the first years of the first millennium. According to "Russia Today", the mission found the mummy in the Deir al-Banat area in Fayoum governorate south of Cairo, inside a coffin wrapped in linen. The head is covered with a cardboard mask (a flax and papyrus used by Egyptians to make funerary masks) in blue and gold, In good condition, while the coffin needs restoration. Sergey Ivanov, head of the mission of the Egyptology Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that since its inception, the mission has found about 400 mummies, but the area mostly includes mummies of figures from the general public. However, In a coffin in color blue and gold, indicating that the owner / owner of the mummy of the people.