A team of Russian archaeologists, working at Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, has recently uncovered a number of mummies wearing golden masks, as well as other artifacts of historical value.

Apart from traditional Egyptian mummies, scientists have also found several so-called Fayoum mummy portraits from the Roman Egyptian period, realistic portraits of a deceased person made on a piece of wood and attached to a mummy.

The scientist added that several findings made at the necropolis challenged the existing theory, based on early Christian literature, that pagans and Christians in Egypt had a long and bitter feud at the dawn of the religion; these findings show that they could live in the same city and pray to different gods

Russian archeologists have also been carrying out underwater research of the ancient part of Alexandria and excavations in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.