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SYDNEY: Australian academics could help unlock mysteries around ancient Egypt after discovering that a 2,500-year-old coffin might contain the remains of a prestigious mummy.
“There are some clues in hieroglyphs and the way the mummification has been done and the style of the coffin that tell us about how this Temple of Sekhmet may have worked.”