For 30 years, archaeologists from Brigham Young University in Utah have been slowly excavating a massive cemetery near the town of Selia, Egypt (about 50 miles south of Cairo).
The cemetery is known as Fag el-Gamous, which translates to “Way of the Water Buffalo”. It covers approximately 300 acres of land and is named after a nearby road that runs through the region. Kerry Muhlestein is an associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at BYU and the project’s director. Last month, Muhlstein presented the project’s findings at the annual Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars Colloquium in Toronto.
“We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It’s large, and it’s dense,”
he said during his presentation.
Many of the remains in the cemetery are dated between the 1st and 7th century A.D., a time when the northern part of Egypt was under Roman and Byzantine rule.
Read more here.... Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, '
Archaeologists Are Unearthing A Mysterious Million-Mummy Cemetery In Egypt' the Higher Learneing,
December 17, 2014
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