According to Live Science, the archeologists have yet to determine where the million mummies came from.
A team of archeologists say they have unearthed an ancient cemetery in the Egyptian desert containing more than one million mummies buried approximately 1,500 years ago.
“We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It’s large, and it’s dense,” project director Kerry Muhlestein said while presenting his findings in Toronto last month, according to Live Science.
The discovery, however, has left the experts from Utah’s Brigham Young University a bit baffled.
According to Live Science, the archeologists have yet to determine where the million mummies came from.
A nearby village appears too small, the researchers said, and another ancient town close by had a burial site of its own. A small pyramid is located nearby, Live Science reported, but the researchers dismissed it as an explanation since it was built two centuries before the cemetery was used.
“It’s hard to know where all these people were coming from,” Muhlestein said, according to Live Science.
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