Australian archaeologists have discovered one of the best preserved ancient Egyptian mummies dating from about 2,600 years ago, Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities said Monday.

The Australian team digging near the Saqqara pyramids, 15 miles south of Cairo, found three coffins last week dating from the 26th Dynasty (664-525 BC), Hawass told Reuters...

[More]   Reuters via Yahoo! News, USA, Feb 28, 2005.

Also Pyramid dig reveals three mummies, The Daily Telegraph, Australia, March 2, 2005.

Also Middle East dig finds mummies in good shape, Reuters via The Guardian, UK, March 1, 2005.

Also Australians unearth priceless mummies, AAP via News.com.au, Australia, March 01, 2005.   This one contains more detail than the others.

Also Science: Aust archaeologists find ancient mummy, Reuters via KeralaNext.com, India, March 01, 2005.

Also Australian dig unearths priceless Egyptian mummies, AAP via Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, March 2, 2005.

Also Aussie team celebrates mummy find, The Australian, Australia, March 01, 2005.

Mysterious mummies, beautiful beads - it's all Aunt Ethel's fault these things keep David Silverman awake at night.

Beginning at age 5, he accompanied his intrepid aunt to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to see her favorites, post-impressionist art and "Egyptian stuff."   Who could have guessed those frequent forays into Manhattan from his home in Bayonne, N.J., would light a fire for "Egyptian stuff" that burns still?

Now 60, Silverman is curator of the Egyptian section of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.   Last week he spoke excitedly about a tomb uncovered by an Australian expedition in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, just south of Cairo...

[More]   Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, USA, Feb. 28, 2005.