Discovered 20 'innovative' Egyptian mummies with different bloodlines

A large mausoleum in Aswan has given scientists 20 mummified Egyptians but not Egyptians who were forgotten centuries after tomb robbers carried away all the treasure.

According to Mostafa Waziru, General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, it is a Greco-Roman tomb consisting of two parts. A floating part is made of sandstone and mud bricks, the lower part is created by going straight into the rock. The tomb is bearing the code AGH032, which was looted by ancient tomb robbers.

Inside the Tomb

An Egyptian and Italian delegation, led by professor of Egyptology and archaeology Patrizia Piacentini from Milan State University and Mr. Abdel Moniem Said, Director General of Antiquities Aswwan and Nubia (SCA), had the excavations. from 2019 in Aswan (Egypt), according to Ancient Origins.

Previously, 300 tombs dating from the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD were found here. The new mausoleum is believed to date from that same period.

The 20 people in the grave are all mummies, belonging to 3 families. Their bodies were treated by traditional Egyptian mummification, but were much simpler than those of the ancient Egyptian nobility.

Their coffins are made of clay and various types of sandstone, while the honor mask on the coffin is made of an ancient form of colored "cardboard", consisting of many layers of fiber or plastered papyrus.

A mummy has just been taken out for research

The tomb also contains many animal bones, pottery shards, tables and offerings, which were used by ancient people for rituals for the dead. A bronze necklace with Greek inscriptions and several hieroglyphic stone slabs were also missed by grave robbers, providing plenty of archaeological clues.

The Greeks arrived in Egypt as early as the 7th century BC, and by the 4th century BC the conquests of Alexander the Great established the city of Alexandria. Then Egypt was until 30 BC, the Roman Empire merged Egypt - the Kingdom of Ptolemy, thereby creating a complex Greco-Roman culture on Egyptian land.