Archaeologists during excavations in the city of Aswan in Egypt discovered a family tomb with 30 mummies. Scientists date the age of the find at 2 thousand years, the Live science portal reported on January 31.
The burial was found in a burned-out building. Among the mummies are the bodies of adults of different ages, children and a newborn.
According to archaeologists, one family buried their dead in the tomb for generations spanning the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (from the first century BC to the second or third century AD).
According to Egyptologist Patricia Piacentini, professor of Egyptian archeology at the University of Milan, the new tomb is one of more than 300 recently discovered around the Aga Khan Mausoleum, a pink granite structure built atop a small hill along the Nile.
However, if most of the other tombs are found underground, this one is located in a structure built into the rock, which was used as a place for offering sacrifices.
Piacentini and her team found traces of fire on the walls. Inside the building were animal bones, plant remains and tables for sacrifices.
At the bottom of the stairs leading to the entrance to the rock-cut tomb, scholars found a broken offering vase containing small fruits.
In December, in the province of Minya in Egypt, human skeletons were found with golden tongues – plates of gold foil. The age of the tombs, which are located at the archaeological site of El-Banas in Upper Egypt, is estimated at about 2.5 thousand years.
Golden tongues have previously been found in ancient Egyptian mummies. According to mythology, they help the spirits of the dead to communicate more successfully with the lord of the underworld, Osiris.
Source: IZ
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