Twelve new tombs discovered in Gebel el Silsila, Egypt
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 12:11
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers, niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact.