AP reports from Cairo that Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says archaeologists have uncovered four intact burial sites, part of a cemetery and an incomplete statue in different areas in the southern city of Aswan.
The article notes that the burial sites are for children and date back to the 18th dynasty, some 3,500 years ago. They include wooden coffins and funerary furniture.
Another mission discovered a headless statue carved in limestone dating to the Greco-Roman era. The statue’s feet and right hand are missing but preliminary studies show it is dressed like the Greek goddess of virginity, wilderness and hunt, “Artemis.”
The ministry also announced that archaeologists have uncovered part of a cemetery including mud-brick tombs from the First Intermediate Period.
Thursday’s statement by the ministry clarifies the new discoveries span different eras of Egypt’s ancient history.
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