A short summary of the recent finds made near Lahun. It took a couple of minutes for this page to load, but I left it to its own devices and it got there in the end.
A large necropolis of 53 rock-hewn tombs of various sizes and structural styles has been uncovered southeast of the Lahun Pyramid in Fayoum, Nevine El-Aref reports
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The tombs were found during routine excavations by an Egyptian archaeological team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) near the pyramid. The excavations were being carried out as part of a project to investigate the area following the removal of previous encroachment by informal and illegal builders. While working, the team stumbled upon what is believed to be an ancient necropolis with 53 rock-hewn tombs that can be dated to the Second Dynasty and to the Middle and New kingdoms -- a time span of almost 2,000 years.
The tombs vary in their interior designs. Some have a single burial shaft, while others have a shaft leading to an upper chamber opening to the main burial chamber, which was probably used to bury the tomb's owner and his wife while other members of the family were buried inside the upper chamber. The third type of tombs consists of two levels; the first is a burial shaft leading to an upper burial chamber stretched to another chamber on a lower level. Excavations inside these tombs revealed that every tomb had wooden coffins containing linen-wrapped mummies covered in cartonnage. The decoration and inscriptions on the mummy trappings are well-preserved and feature offering inscriptions and geometrical decorations.
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