Discover dozens of mummies in ancient Egyptian tombs

There are about 30 mummies, some are children placed in a long compartment at the wall of a 2,000-year-old tomb.

A corner of an ancient tomb in Aswan has been excavated by experts.(Photo: Fox News).

The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry reported finding more than 30 mummies in a tomb in Aswan , the ancient city of southern Egypt, on April 23. In addition to mummies, a group of Egyptian and Italian researchers also found an ancient mask used in funerals, decorative jars and jars, and some jars still containing food and pieces of wooden coffins and many. other objects.

In the main room there are about 30 mummies, some are children and placed in a long compartment at the wall. A number of other mummies were also discovered in small rooms connected to the main room.

The team also found an almost intact stretcher made of palm wood and linen, used to put mummies into catacombs and cartonnage pieces, materials made of sedge and plaster used to wrap mummies or for other purposes. Among the antiquities, there is a small Ba-bird statue in half-human and half-bird form that represents the soul of the dead.

Two of the mummies are found at the tomb.(Photo: Fox News).

This tomb belongs to the person named Tjt and was built around the end of the Pharaoh period, the beginning of the Greco-Roman period (in 332 BC to 395). This is just one of the tombs discovered in the ancient city of Aswan .

"Archaeologists have located about 300 tombs from the 6th century BC to the 4th century in the area around the Aga Khan tomb, the west bank of the Nile river of Aswan. 25 tombs here have been excavated. in the period 2015-2018 " , representatives of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said.

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