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Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online
A collection of 110 tombs from the Boto I and II, Naqada III, and the Second Intermediate Period eras, have been uncovered in Kom Al-Khelgan in the Daqahliya governorate in the Nile Delta.
“68 of these tombs date back to the Boto I and II eras, five from the Naqada III era, and 37 from the Second Intermediate Period era”, Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram Online.
Most of the tombs from the Boto eras feature rounded and oval shaped burials containing skulls and skeletons of the deceased laying bending on their left side. Other burials contained newly born children buried inside clay pots.
Meanwhile, 31 tombs from the Second Intermediate Period era are rectangular shaped with a depth ranging between 20 to 85 cm deep, and the rest are for young children buried in clay sarcophagi.
A funerary collection of rounded clay pots and oval pots with holders, as well as stelae amulets were discovered.
The mission unearthed a number of scarabs carved in faience and decorated with well-known motifs of the era, in addition to stone instruments and knives made of flint.
Further excavations will continue at the site.
