An Egyptian team excavating at Gerza (ancient Philadelphia) in the Fayum has discovered a large Graeco-Roman funerary building with coloured tile floors, and a number of complete and partial mummy portraits.

The team also found a number of anthropoid and Greek-style coffins, a rare terracotta statue of Isis-Aphrodite, and administrative papyri written in Demotic and Greek.


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