Egypt unveils tombs dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of two cemeteries dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt in al-Bahnasa archaeological area in Minya governorate.
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.”
He continued, “Inside the tomb, a sarcophagus made of limestone was found with a lid in the form of a woman, and next to the remains of an unknown person."
Waziri said that the “preliminary studies of the tomb showed that it had been previously visited in ancient times.”
