The farmer’s discovery soon attracted a number of locals who flooded the site in search of valuables. Still, the farmer didn’t expect his digging to uncover a hidden underground tomb which contained as many as 80,000 mummified cats. At that time, the area around Beni Hasan was already known for several tombs of noblemen of ancient Egypt, including the tomb of Amenemhat who was the chief priest during the reign of the pharaoh Senusret I in the 20th century B.C. In 1888, a farmer was digging a well in the desert outside of the town of Beni Hasan, some hundred miles from Egypt’s capital city of Cairo. Such cruel entrepreneurship was likely the background story of the largest mass grave of mummified cats ever found.
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