Sohag police unearth mummy

Sohag police found an ancient mummy in the Akhmim District fields yesterday.

The discovery of the mummy came in the aftermath of a report sent to Sohag police that a corpse bas been found buried in a field.

A forensic examination round that the corpse is of a woman who died a very long time ago, this being backed by a later antiquities committee analysis.

Unfortunately, the mummy is in a very bad condition due to the linen which originally wrapped it having been removed a long time ago.

The antiquities committee also said that the mummy was first buried in one of Sohag's old tombs before a governorate resident then moved it to the field,likely thinking that it belonged to someone who had been murdered.