High winds exposed 2000-year-old mummies in the sand that surprised archaeologists

Archaeologists are like 'digging gold' when they accidentally discovered 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummies exposed beneath the hot, thick sand.

According to Express, German archaeologist Martin Bommas spent 30 years searching the catacombs of Egyptian mummies with no results. One day, Bommas stumbled across a 2,000-year-old mummy while walking in the sand near the city of Aswan.

Strong winds blew many layers of sand in the hot desert, revealing the astonished mummies.'Look! That's part of the mummy's body, the pelvis , ' Bommas said.

Channel 5 host Tony Robinson said: 'Incredibly, a headless mummy showed up this morning just because of the winds'.

German archaeologist accidentally found the mummy exposed under the sand.

'Do you think there was a stone tomb here?' Robinson asks. The German archaeologist replied: 'Yes, but maybe the dogs pulled the mummy out. The mummy is no longer intact. Head and leg parts are missing. '

'The mummy seems to have been burned. There is a scorch mark here, ' Bommas added. 'Look at the cloth wrapped around the mummy, it looks high quality and the mummification technique is also perfect.'

Bommas said that this is the mummy of a rich man, so when he died, he was buried in such a feat.

The mummy lost his head and legs, leaving only his body.

The German archaeologist thinks that this is a Roman mummy, living in Aswan during the period of Roman domination of Egypt about 2,000 years ago.'That means this mummy is also about 2,000 years old.'

Host Robinson later said the Egyptian desert still hides many unexplored secrets.

At the present time, more than 150 artifacts are transported from Egypt to England for display, which is part of the Egyptian pharaoh's art collection Tutankhamun. The artifacts are on display in London until May 3, 2020.

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