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Article: Egypt's body of proof; BOOK REVIEWS.
- Article from:
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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IT was as eerie as a scene from a Hammer Horror film as the pickaxes broke into a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
Inside lay a mysterious mummy that nobody could identify. All names had been hacked away and the body's golden facemask had been obliterated 3,000 years ago.
The discovery was made in 1907 and yet, incredibly, the mystery of Tomb 55 was put to one side and became little more than a footnote to Egyptology . . . until now.
Because Coventry author Graham Phillips has put forward an astonishing ...