For You Lot Data - Ptolemaic Rock-Cut Tombs Discovered Inwards Alexandria

An Egyptian archaeological squad has discovered a cemetery dating dorsum to the Ptolemaic dynasty inwards Alexandria.

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The squad was conducting archaeological testing at a site inwards Gebel El-Zaytoun, where a debate was to move established, within workshops of the Railway Authority inwards the Mediterranean urban essence when they made the discovery.

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MD Amin Ashmawi, caput of the Egyptian Antiquities Department, said that a grouping of rock-cut tombs, each containing multiple burials, were found. Each grouping of tombs is entered via a expose of steps that Pb to a pocket-sized opened upward hall together with rectangular courtyard surrounded past times several burial slots.

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MD Ashmawi too said that the tombs were nearly probable used over a long menstruum of fourth dimension together with that they belonged to miserable individuals. The tombs accept coloured layers of mortar amongst no ornament which reflects the economical condition of the deceased buried there.

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The tombs were apparently modified over several generations either to add together novel internments or to seal others.

MD Khalid Abo El-Hamd (General Director of the Alexandria Antiquities Dept.) said that numerous pots together with petroleum lamps, roughly of which are decorated amongst animals grazing or nursing their young.

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H5N1 expose of drinking glass vases, amphorae together with circular shaped pottery bearing reliefs of woman individual dancers, were too recovered.

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Many skeletons discovered were inwards disarray because of the impairment caused to the site during the 1930s when the railway structures were installed together with after because of WWII air strikes.

The Ministry of Antiquities has allocated a total of coin to behaviour farther excavations inwards the area.

Source: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities [August 26, 2018]


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