CAIRO — Egyptian archaeologists have discovered around 250 tombs in the country’s southern province of Sohag, dating back about 4,200 years, the antiquities ministry said Tuesday.
The graves “include some with a well or several burial wells and other cemeteries with a sloping corridor that ends with a burial room,” the ministry said in a statement.
They range in age “from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Ptolemaic period,” it added.
The Old Kingdom, spanning around 500 years, ended in 2200 BC, while Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty lasted for 300 years and ended with the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC.
Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said o…
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