Printer Friendly Version New discovery of tombs in Minya, Tuna el-Gebel @ 3 February 2019 11:27 AM

Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Ministry of Tourism, ministers Khaled Al Ennani and Rania El Mashat on 2nd of February 2019., in a presence of foreign and domestic media, opened for public number of ancient burial chambers  containing some 40 mummies in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Minya in Tuna el-Gebel. Mummies are in good condition and decorated with demotic handwriting from that period of Egyptian civilization. Period of discovered graves is during the Ptolemaic Dynasty from around 320 BC to about 30 BC.  For the very first time it was discovered on the paintings of new elements of wrestling that reminds Greek-Roman  stile.
The opening ceremony of this site was in presence of journalists and representatives of diplomatic core invited from both Ministry's.