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Ramses I Mummy back in October
Egypt, Local, 6/19/2003
Ramses I mummy, currently in the US Atlantis Carlos Musseum, will return to Egypt in October, said the Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) on Wednesday.
Zahi Hawas added an agreement had been reached with the director of the Museum to hand over Ramses I mummy to the south Egyptian city of Luxor after being verified as a royal mummy.
The mummy is believed to have been stolen from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor during excavations for antiquities in the past.
Ramses I was one of the most important Kings of Pharaonic Egypt whose time saw the golden era of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. His mummy's fingernails are covered with gold.
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