Find Dead Horses in Egypt

Two mummified horses, the first of their kind, have been discovered in a royal tomb at Sakkara, near Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. The tomb was found and first opened last year by members of the Harvard-Boston Museum Expedition.

While mummified ibises, cats, falcons, bulls and crocodiles have been found frequently in ancient tombs it is believed that no horses have been uncovered before. Horses did not come into Egypt until the Seventeenth Dynasty, about 1800 B. C., and as they were never deified or associated with any of the many gods of Egypt they were never deemed worthy of preservation. Why these two horses were saved is a problem which has not yet been solved.