Egypt tomb find may shed light on ancient diseases: Ministry

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Egypt tomb find may shed light on ancient *********: Ministry

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A new discovery of 33 ancient tombs in Egypt’s southern city of Aswan could reveal “new information on *********” prevalent at the time, the tourism and antiquities ministry said Monday.

The tombs date back to the Ancient Egyptian Late ******* and the Greco-Roman Periods, which collectively lasted from the seventh century BC until around the fourth century AD.

The burials were found by a ****** Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission.

Ayman Ashmawy, who heads the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ Egyptian Antiquities Division, said studies of the mummies “indicate that 30 to 40 percent of those ******* ***** in their youth, as newborns or as adolescents”.

Patrizia Piacentini, professor of Egyptology and archaeology at the University of Milan, headed the Italian side of the mission.

She said preliminary studies on the ******** showed that “some suffered from infectious *********, while others had bone disorders”.

The ******** of several ****** women showed signs of pelvic bone trauma.

Other mummies indicated “anemia, malnutrition, chest *********, tuberculosis and signs of osteoporosis”, Piacentini said in a ministry statement.

Since 2018, the mission has been excavating the area around the Aga Khan mausoleum where Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah is *******, on the west bank of the Nile River just across from Aswan city center.

Among the ******** found were “an ******, perhaps a woman, and a child who may have ***** at the age of one or two”, said Abdelmoneim Said, General Director of Aswan and Nubia Antiquities.

“The two bodies were still attached to each other inside a stone coffin,” he added.

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