A joint Egyptian-Japanese team working on the eastern escarpment of the North Saqqara plateau has discovered a rock-cut tomb dating to the Second Dynasty. The tomb contained an adult buried in a crouched position, found lying next to the remains of a wooden box that had been destroyed by termites. Nearby was a second burial of a child. The team also found a large number of artefacts dating to later periods, including the remains of an Eighteenth Dynasty coffin with a well-preserved alabaster jar, and colourful funerary masks. Several Graeco-Roman funerary artefacts were uncovered, including a carved stela inscribed for a man called ‘Heroides’, and two terracotta statues of Isis and Harpocrates.
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