Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

Archeologists uncovered what is likely the oldest mummy ever discovered in Egypt on Thursday. Archaeologists discovered the 4,300-year-old Hekashepes near the Step Pyramid wrapped in gold leaf.

The ruler's mummy was found fully wrapped in 1881, and according to researchers, is one of the few royal mummies to not be physically unwrapped in modern times.

Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

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Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum, was just re-examined by researchers.

Ancient Egyptian mummies were an important aspect of archaeology and defined the field in many ways. The excitement of a dinosaur fossil was parallel to the intriguing revelation of a wrapped mummy.

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Some of those wrappings dated to as early as 4300 BCE (about 600 years older than the Turin mummy), and others dated to as late as 3100 BCE, but none were still associated with an actual mummy.