Published May 12, 2021, 7:11 AM
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.
(COMBO) This combination of handout pictures provided by Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on May 11, 2021 shows a view of newly discovered tombs in the southern province of Sohag, dating back about 4,200 years. – 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. (Photos by – / Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities / AFP)