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　　Sat Oct 25, 4:30 PM ET CAIRO （Reuters） - A Egyptian mummy, which is probably pharaoh Ramses I who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, returned home on Saturday from a U.S. museum after a journey that began with a 19th century grave robbery.

　　路透社-開(kāi)羅:東部時(shí)間10月25號(hào)星期六下午4:30報(bào)道 一具被認(rèn)為有可能是法老的木乃伊,星期六從一個(gè)美國(guó)博物館運(yùn)回到了埃及。據(jù)說(shuō)這具木乃伊的原身乃是統(tǒng)治了埃及3000多年的法老拉姆西斯二世，它在19世紀(jì)一場(chǎng)盜墓中被擄掠了去。

　　The body, which like that of other ancient Egyptian rulers would originally have been laid in a decorated tomb, was flown into Cairo airport carefully packed in a plain wooden crate.

　　此具木乃伊尸體原來(lái)和其他古老的法老木乃伊一樣，放在一個(gè)裝飾漂亮的古墓中。但是后來(lái)卻被裹住放在一個(gè)樸素的木箱里，從開(kāi)羅機(jī)場(chǎng)偷偷地運(yùn)走。

　　Witnesses said the box was taken off the plane draped in an Egyptian flag. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, accompanied the mummy on the flightThe Michael C. Carlos Museum in the U.S. city of Atlanta acquired the mummy in 1999 but offered to return it after studies by Egyptologists helped by hi-tech scanning equipment indicated it was probably Ramses I, the museum Web site said.

　　目擊者稱箱子在埃及國(guó)旗的掩護(hù)下被抬下了飛機(jī)。而埃及古遺物高級(jí)委員會(huì)秘書(shū)長(zhǎng)Zahi Hawass陪伴著整個(gè)行程。美國(guó)亞特蘭大市Michael C. Carlos博物館1999年得到此具木乃伊，但在埃古物學(xué)家?guī)椭掠酶呖萍紥呙柩芯孔C實(shí)是拉姆西斯一世后答應(yīng)歸還埃及，該博物館網(wǎng)站報(bào)道說(shuō)。

　　Ramses I was originally a military commander and is thought to have become a pharaoh around 1290 B.C. He ruled for just two years but founded Egypt's 19th dynasty, which included Ramses II, who was on the throne for several decades.

　　拉姆西斯一世的原身是軍隊(duì)的司令官，據(jù)說(shuō)大約公元1290年左右做了埃及的法老。他統(tǒng)治了僅僅兩年但建立了埃及的第19個(gè)王朝。該王朝的另一個(gè)統(tǒng)治者是拉姆西斯二世，他在位的時(shí)期長(zhǎng)達(dá)幾十年。

　　The mummy ―― which bears striking facial resemblances to Seti I and Ramses II, Ramses I's immediate successors ―― was acquired by the U.S. museum from a museum at Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canadian border, the Carlos Museum Web site said.

　　面部和Seti I、拉拇西斯二世有著驚人相似的拉姆西斯一世尸體，在美國(guó)和加拿大國(guó)界上的尼亞加拉瀑布博物館之后落到了美國(guó)博物館手中。卡洛斯博物館網(wǎng)站報(bào)道說(shuō)。

　　It said a Canadian collector probably bought the corpse around 1860 for the Niagara Falls institution from an Egyptian family who had stumbled on a tomb filled with royal mummies around Deir el-Bahri, an ancient site near Luxor.

　　據(jù)說(shuō)該尸是1860年由一個(gè)加拿大收藏家?guī)Ыo尼亞加拉瀑布博物館的。而這個(gè)收藏家當(dāng)初從一個(gè)埃及人手里買來(lái)了此具木乃伊，當(dāng)時(shí)這戶埃及人家在Luxor.附近的一個(gè)叫Deir el-Bahri的舊址中發(fā)現(xiàn)裝滿了皇族木乃伊的墳?zāi)埂?/p>

　　The Abdel-Rassul family sold treasures from the site for several years until they were discovered and the tomb officially revealed in 1881. The remaining cache included the empty coffin bearing the name of Ramses I, the Web site said.

　　Abdel-Rassul一家把墳?zāi)估锏倪@些財(cái)寶源源賣出，這樣的情況持續(xù)了好幾年。直到1881年他們被發(fā)現(xiàn)，而墳?zāi)挂脖徽较蛲饨缤嘎丁埩舻膬?chǔ)藏室里標(biāo)有拉姆西斯一世的名字。網(wǎng)站報(bào)道說(shuō)。

　　It was not the first time Ramses I's body was disturbed.

　　拉姆西斯一世木乃伊被騷擾已經(jīng)不是第一次了。

　　He was originally buried in the nearby Valley of Kings, but tomb raiders emptied that grave in ancient times. Priests of a later pharaonic dynasty reburied Ramses I near Deir el-Bahri with the bodies of other rulers whose graves were pillaged.他最初被葬在列王旁邊的山谷附近，但是古代的盜墓者在那里擄掠過(guò)。牧師和后面朝代的一些法老把拉姆西斯一世和一些墳?zāi)贡粨锫拥姆ɡ夏灸艘烈煌卦嵩贒eir el-Bahri附近。

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