CAIRO — The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities unveiled Dec. 5 two adjacent cemeteries dating back to the “Sawy era,” or the Late Period of ancient Egypt, at an archaeological site in Minya governorate, in Upper Egypt.
In a Dec. 5 statement, Mustafa Waziri, secretary-general of the state-run Supreme Council of Antiquities said the Spanish archaeological mission affiliated with the University of Barcelona, working at al-Bahnasa site, “found in one of the two tombs the remains of two unknown persons with gold tongues.”