when were the first mummies found from Ancient Egypt?

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Answer 1

In the last 1800s (except for grave robbers)

Answer 2

The first Ancient Egypt Mummies found were in the early 20th Century by Europeans.

Answer 3

Mummies have been available from the very first when the practice was developed. Grave robbers have always been active. Mummies were articles of commerce in ancient times.

Answer 4

An Ancient Cache of Mummies

Five hundred years later, after the glory days of Egypt were gone, the priests of the 21st dynasty gathered up the royal mummies from their looted tombs. The Deir el Bahri cache included mummies of the 18th and 19th dynasty leaders Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, II, and III, Ramses I, Seti I, and Ramses II; in a room further back were found 21st dynasty pharoahs Pinedjum I and II. And there they would lie undisturbed for another 3,000 years.

Archaelogy at Deir el-Bahri

Archaeological investigations of the Deir el-Bahri complex were begun in 1881, when Gaston Maspero found the mummy cache. Despite one hundred years of searching, not one royal mummy had been discovered, yet in the 1870s objects belonging to the missing pharoahs began to turn up in the antiquities market. Maspero, director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, went to Luxor in 1881 and began to apply pressure to the Abd er Rassoul family, residents of Gurnah who have for generations been tomb robbers.

Excavations at the temples themselves began in the 1890s with Edouard Naville. In 1911, Naville turned over his concession on Deir el-Bahri (which allowed him sole excavators rights), and the legendary Herbert Winlock began what would be 25 years of excavation and restoration. Today, the beauty and elegance of Hatshepsut's temple is open to visitors from around the planet.