The Kharga Oasis, some 125 miles southwest of Luxor, Egypt, is hardly the first place you'd think to look for mummies. No pyramids loom there; no mausoleums mark it as a portal through which Egyptian nobles entered the afterlife. Think of it as the Peoria of Pharaonic times, a backwater where ordinary peasants and farmers lived and died--and left pretty ordinary remains.
Yet the ordinary can sometimes prove remarkable. That's what French researchers discovered when they were called in to examine a stash of mummies unearthed by the Egyptians in a necropolis at Ain Labakha, a village within the oasis inhabited...
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