Royal Tomb, Greek-Language Writings Among Latest Discoveries in Egypt

Professor Mohamed Abdel Badie said that preliminary studies and evidence indicate that this site was used during the Byzantine era and was reused as a cemetery in the seventh century AD, possibly extending into the fourteenth century AD.

A number of burials were found at the site, including mudbrick tombs containing skeletons and mummies, likely representing family graves for men and women, the majority of whom were children.

Perhaps the most haunting burial discovery of the mission was the mummy of a child wearing a colorful fabric cap.