Sixty-three burials dating to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty have been discovered by the Egyptian mission working at Tell el-Deir cemetery in New Damietta. Inside the simple graves and mud-brick tombs, the team found fragments of gold, amulets, and shabtis, as well as local and imported pottery vessels and bronze coins from the Ptolemaic era, reflecting the importance of the city as a trading centre in the late pharaonic period.
Text: Sarah Griffiths / All images: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, unless otherwise stated
