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Tomb opening. It was near here that in 1876 ther greatest mummy find ever was made -- the mummies of 40 pharaohs, queens, and nobles. New Kingdom priests seem to have realised that the bodies of their kings would never be safe in their own tombs, so they moved them to a communal grave. Many are on display at the Egyptian Museum

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