In Egypt, 2,500 Years Old Mummy Coffin gets opened
In Egypt, 2,500 Years Old Mummy Coffin gets opened
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A video got viral on social media in which it has been found that Ancient Mummy Coffin that is believed to be Sealed 2,500 Years Ago was Opened in Egypt. In a statement by Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities mentioned that 59 wooden coffins were discovered inside burial wells in Saqqara's archaeology area. On Saturday Archaeologists in Egypt have opened an ancient mummy coffin in front of a live audience where dozens of people watched and filmed as archaeologists unsealed the first of 59 sealed sarcophagi found earlier this year in Saqqara, revealing a mummy inside.

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One of those 59 coffins was opened for the first time on Saturday since it was sealed some 2,500 years ago. A video of the unsealing, hosted by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has now gone viral on social media. It exhibits a mummy inside the coffin, wrapped in an ornate burial cloth. The video has earned 9 million views on Twitter. Many on the microblogging platform joked that opening a millenia-old coffin may not be the best course of action in the year 2020. According to superstition and pop culture some have sustained the belief that opening a mummy's tomb leads to death and curses.

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After the video got viral many of Twitter user tweets their views regarding the event where one of the user post "I've always wondered when opening something like this if it could contain viruses or germs that maybe modern humans have no immunity to,"

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