Today, 44 years ago, on November 25, 1981 (October 29, 1981), two hundred mummies were discovered in West Germany. In November 1981, two hundred ancient Greek mummies were discovered in the basement of the University of West Tübingen. This is the largest group of mummies collected in the world. Scientists believe these mummies were the bodies of the Egyptian aristocrats who lived between 1800 and 300 BC.