Egyptian archaeologists working in the Nile Delta have discovered dozens of rare pre-dynastic tombs reduced in the period before the kingdoms of the Pharaohs in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago.
They also discovered tombs from the late Hyksos period (1650 to 1500 BC), when immigrants from West Asia occupied the country ending the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
Finds in Dakalia province north of Cairo could shed light on two important transitional periods in ancient Egypt, according to Egyptologists.
The tombs contain 68 from the period of the (city) Voutos (Vouto) which started around 3300 BC. and five from the Nakanda II period, just before the appearance of the first dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
They also include 37 tombs from the time of the Hyksos, which began migrating from Sinai to Egypt around 1800 BC.
“It is an extremely interesting cemetery because it combines some of the earliest periods in Egyptian history with another important period, the Yksos period,” said Salima Ikran, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo.
“Egyptologists are working to understand how the Egyptians and the Hyksos lived together and to what extent the latter accepted the Egyptian traditions.”
The tombs of Voutos were oval in shape and the corpses were placed in a sitting position, the ministry said in a statement.
Some of the tombs of the Nakanda period included cylindrical and pear-shaped vessels.
The tombs of the Hyksos were mostly semi-rectangular with the corpses lying in full length and the head also facing west.
“The mission also discovered a group of ovens, hearths, remnants of brick foundations, earthenware, amulets, especially beetles, some of which were made of semi-precious stones and jewelry such as earrings,” the statement said.
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