Millenia old mummy found in Egypt tomb

London: Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy in “very good condition” resting inside a brightly coloured wooden sarcophagus.

The Egyptian mummy found near Luxor had been bound with linen stuck together with plaster.

“The tomb was uncovered at the southern enclosure wall of the Temple of Millions of Years,” said Mahmoud Afifi, head of the ancient Egyptian antiquities department.

The mummy is believed to be the body of a man named Amenrenef, who held the title of “Servant of the King’s House.”

Amenrenef's tomb likely dates from the Third Intermediate period around 1,000 BC, probably to the 21st Dynasty, Live Science reported. According to the head of the Spanish archaeological team, Myriam Seco Alvarez, the 3,000-year-old mummy case features “many colourful decorations recalling religious symbols of ancient Egypt.”

The inscriptions and decorations include solar symbols, the protective goddesses Isis and Nephthys spreading their wings, the four sons of god Horus, and many other finely painted scenes, Alvarez noted.

Meanwhile, a 1000-year-old ancient building ruins believed to be dating back to the Jin and Yuan dynasties have been unearthed in China’s northern Hebei province.

After four months of excavation at the Haifeng Town in Huanghua City, the ruins of an ancient hearth, fire pits and wall footings have been uncovered among bricks, tiles and broken porcelain.

The staff working at the site have also unearthed a 6-meter-wide main road, flanked on both sides by the ruins of buildings.

Judging from preliminary assessment of the unearthed ruins, they are presumed to have been used during the Jin (960-1276) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, said Lei Jianhong, director of the research office for underwater archaeology at the Hebei Cultural Relics Institute, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The excavation area, which is 30-meters long and 10-meters wide, is only a small part of the building cluster of the Haifeng Town ruins.