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The Egyptian princess


Francisco de Gouveia Martins Sarmento is without doubt one of the most famous archaeologists of Portugal, and in his time end of the 19th Century, he was probably the most famous in his field. Born

Martins Sarmento was at 09 March 1833 in the city of Guimarães.
All his life he dedicated to the archeology of northern Portugal and the first inhabitants of this area - the Celts, the Lusitania, and the Iberians. In particular, the area
to his home town of Guimarães had done to him, and it was Martins Sarmento often during excavations in the area, which was then with the years, his main area of research.
He was the author of interesting and important literature, such as "Os Argonautas" (Eng.: The Argonauts), "Lusitano" (Eng.: Lusitanian), "Ora Maritima" and "e Ligures Celtas.

His heart was not only the national but also for the exotic archeology, even though this was more a hobby than his vocation.
Martins Sarmento has never participated in an archaeological excavation in Egypt, although he would certainly have liked it.
As was customary, he also had a penchant for all that was Egyptian.

1871, he ordered, therefore, an English dealer in Porto, the mummy of an Egyptian princess, which should, as a kind of attraction to his new home when he should visit his friends at home.
some point, in the course of 1872, met this mummy then coming in Porto, from London, at last. wanted to pick
As Martins Sarmento it at the port, to bring them home, the mummy was disappeared from the earth.
It turned out that the Port Authority - Today we would commonly say to the inch - had opened the box.
They found a blackish body and came to the conclusion that he must have heard a man who had been roasted in an oven.
The ancient bandages which enveloped the mummy was, in their view, the remains of a singed shirt.
They brought the mummy then in one of the city morgues of Porto. Would
Martins Sarmento come in time to trigger the mummy, the Egyptian princess would certainly landed after two thousand years of sleep in the pyramids still in a Catholic grave.

You can still this mummy in the museum Sociedade Martins Sarmento marvel, which is located in Sarmento birthplace Guimarães. There you can find many archaeological objects that were excavated from Martins Sarmento personally and collected. The Sociedade Martins Sarmento
is "the" cultural institution of Guimarães.

here in the city where he first saw the light of day, he also died at 09 August 1899, at the age of 66.