Egyptian ‘City of the Dead’ reveals hundreds of mummies, funerary artifacts [Video]

Archaeologists recently excavated a “City of the Dead” that contained hundreds of ancient tombs in Egypt.

The University of Milan announced the discovery in a press release last week. The tombs were found near the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan in Aswan, located in southern Egypt.

Patrizia Piacentini, an Egyptology professor at the University of Milan, told Fox News Digital that the entire site contains between 300 and 400 tombs. She predicts that there are probably even more tombs to be discovered.

“It was used for almost one millennium, from the sixth century BC to the second century AD, and the family tombs reused over the centuries,” she explained.

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Excavations began at the site in 2019, but some of tombs were unknown to archaeologists until now. Pictures show a line of remarkably preserved mummies outside the tomb, and interior pictures show mudbrick walls and an …