Tomb containing 50 mummies uncovered in Egypt

Pharaonic tomb dating back more than 2,000 years discovered at Tuna el-Gebel site

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb containing 50 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era (323-30BC) , in Minya, south of Cairo, the ministry of antiquities said.

The mummies, 12 of which were of children, were discovered inside four, nine-metre deep burial chambers in the Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site.

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