DATING back five millennia in a land thousands of miles away, Ancient Egypt could scarcely seem further removed from modern day Yorkshire.
But now the “amazing” discovery that Egyptian mummies were buried near Barnsley nearly 2,000 years ago has been revealed by the curator of a new exhibition which shows the civilisation has closer links with the region than ever previously imagined.
Egyptologist Joann Fletcher, who was born in the town,
said: “There is more and
more evidence that this was happening and we are undertaking scientific analysis to underpin this really amazing possibility.
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