110 Burials including 5000-Year-Old Burials Discovered by an Egyptian Team
Dr. Mostafa Waziry announced that the Egyptian mission working at the site Kom el Khelgan (in Dakahlia governorate in the Nile Delta, north of Cairo) directed by Dr. Sayed El Talhawy successfully continued their discoveries and unearthed 110 burials dated to 3 different eras including Buto I (Maadi) and Buto II and Naqada III as well as the second intermediate period or the Hyksos period.
Dr. Waziri said that the burials include 68 burials dated to Buto and 5 burials to Naqada III and 37 burials to the second intermediate period. Dr. Aiman Ashmawi (Head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities sector) said “The 68 burials are oval shaped burials were cut in the sandy layers of the area and placed in them remains of humans in the squatting position, most of them were placed on the left side with the head towards the west. The remains of an embryo dated to Buto II was discovered in a spherical shaped pottery container.†Dr. Ashmawi added “The five burials dated to Naqada III are also oval shaped ones, two of them, their insides, bottom and roof were covered in mud. Funerary furniture were found too including cylinder shaped and pear-shaped pottery jars.â€
Dr. Nadia Khedr (Head of Lower Egypt Antiquities Central administration) said “The 37 Second intermediate period burials, 31 of them are semi-rectangular shaped holes varies in depth between 20cm to 85 cm. All of the human remains discovered laid with the face up and the head towards the west. A pottery coffin of a child discovered as well as two tombs of two children built with mudbricks in a rectangular shape with the children buried inside with funerary furniture including small pottery and silver earrings. There is also remains of an embryo burial inside a big pottery jar with small funerary furniture inside the jar too, which is a small black pottery jar.â€
The Mission has discovered also a number of ovens and remains of mudbrick structures’ foundations as well as pottery jars, amulets especially scarabs (some are made of semi-precious stones) and jewelry such as ear rings. The mission’s work still ongoing.
Check the mission’s previous discoveries https://luxortimes.com/…/egyptian-archaeologists…/
