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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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A Cairo newspaper calculates the vast number of ancient Egyptian mummies and proposes to Mahomet Pacha that their cloths be commercialized in the linen trade, valued at over $10.5 million, with digging revealing jewels and artifacts.
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A Cairo newspaper enters into a long calculation of the number of mummies which must have been embalmed and deposited in crypts, pits, sepulchral chambers, &c., during the existence of Ancient Egypt as a great and populous country; and proposes that Mahomet Pacha should allow their clothing to become an article of extended commerce in the linen trade, valued at least at ten millions and a half of dollars! The digging up this treasure, it is further calculated, would bring to light jewels and other materials of archæological price!
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Cairo
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valued at least at ten millions and a half of dollars; would bring to light jewels and other materials of archaeological price
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A Cairo newspaper enters into a long calculation of the number of mummies which must have been embalmed and deposited in crypts, pits, sepulchral chambers, &c., during the existence of Ancient Egypt as a great and populous country; and proposes that Mahomet Pacha should allow their clothing to become an article of extended commerce in the linen trade.