Tell el-Deir

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New tombs at Tell el-Deir

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…

Far left One of the Late Period burials discovered at Tell el Deir in New Damietta. top left Golden amulets discovered in the Late Period burials at Tell el Deir. left Miniature pottery canopic jars from Tell el Deir.

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New tombs and golden amulets found in New Damietta

The burials contained bodies that were covered with thin gold foils in the shapes of Isis, Bastet, and other deities.