Four healthy graves have been discovered for children buried more than 3,000 years ago in a series of archaeological discoveries near the southern city of Aswan, officials said.
The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Dr. Ayman Ashmawi, said that the linen rolls used to mummify the body are still in a tomb discovered by a Swedish-Egyptian excavation team.
The tomb dates back to the 18th pharaonic family (1549-1550-1292 BC).
An Austrian-Egyptian excavation team also discovered part of a cemetery and a Swiss excavation team found a woman's statue.
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Archaeologists discovered these graves at the site of Jabal al-Silsilah. A tomb was carved into the rock to bury a child between 2 and 3 years old.
Linen moss rolls were also found on organic material from the remains of an arched wooden coffin.
Other finds in the tomb include amulets and a set of pottery vessels that were found in the second grave, which belonged to a child between 6 and 9 years of age who was placed inside a wooden coffin and in the third grave, which was for a child aged 5 to 8 years.
The fourth tomb was also for a child aged five to eight years.
The discovery will shed more light on burial traditions as well as on social, economic and religious life during the 18th Dynasty, also known as the Age of Baptism, according to Dr. Maria Nelson, head of the Swedish exploration mission.
Nelson told the BBC that so far 69 graves had been found at the Mount Silesia site, more than half of which had already been dug, and most of the graves that had been dug had been looted in ancient times.
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