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A team of Egyptian archaeologists opened a 30-tonne black granite sarcophagus, more than two thousand years old, where he found three mummies in a state of decomposition due to a crack that allowed the entrance of sewage. It is the largest sarcophagus of the kind discovered in Alexandria, which is nearly 1.85 meters high, 2.65 meters long and 1.65 meters wide.
"The sarcophagus has been opened and no curse has fallen on us" said Mostafa Waziry, head of the Egyptian Council of Antiquities, in response to multiple warnings to superstition that something bad would happen to anyone opened the sarcophagus.
The three mummies were found with a red liquid that Waziry identified as wastewater. At the present time, it is believed that the liquid that accelerated the decomposition of the bodies will be entered through a crack in the right side of the sarcophagus.
The tomb was located nearly five meters deep and averaged 1.85 meters in height, 2.65 in length and 1.65 in width.
It is believed that the sarcophagus belongs to the early Ptolemaic period, which began after the death of Alexander the Great in the year 323 BC. It was first speculated that the grave belonged to him, but this assumption was set aside due to the absence of precious metals and inscriptions on the sarcophagus that indicate it.
The skulls of the mummies were removed from the site for analysis. Their ages and causes of death will be analyzed, but a specialist who was on the scene said that the mummies would be three soldiers, because one of the skulls showed signs of being pierced by an arrow.
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