Another Egyptian mission at Saqqara has discovered a group of Late Period pottery vessels marked with demotic inscriptions, some of which contained the remains of a white cheese. This type of cheese was called โharamโ by the ancient Egyptians โ a word that became โhaloumโ during the Coptic Period, and is now known as halloumi.

Some of the pots โ all of which date to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Dynasties โ were found sealed and will be investigated at a later date.