BEIJING, Mar. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- An Australian team has digged up one of the best preserved ancient Egyptian mummies aged 2,600 years, Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities said Monday.

    Australian archaeologists found coffins last week dating from the 26th Dynasty (664-525 BC) near the Saqqara pyramids, 15 miles south of Cairo, according to the report of Reuters.

    "In one of them (coffins) there is one of the best preserved mummies ever found dating from the 26th Dynasty," Hawass was quoted as saying by Reuters.

    Two of the mummies were male wearing elaborate collars with their arms crossed over their chests, the antiquities council said in a statement.

    The third was a mummified woman who was covered by a net of mosaic beads depicting her, the council said.

    Last year French and Egyptian archaeologists uncovered more than 50 mummies from the same period buried in deep shafts in the same area. Enditem

    (Agencies)