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“Visuals of the mummy full of gold treasure, excavated by the archaeology department”
Social media posts Claim dated 21 Jan 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

These visuals show a mummy excavated in Luxor city of Egypt in 2018. The mummy is excavated by a French-led mission in the Al-Assasif necropolis on the western bank of the Nile and is presumed to be 3000 years old. The authorities have opened it in the presence of the media, for the first time. However, there is no gold treasure found in the mummy. It was initially reported that the sarcophagus contained well-preserved mummified remains of a woman named Thuya. However, the antiquities ministr...

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 21 January 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 7 January 2022, 351 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

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