Researchers also uncovered a funerary building, records written on papyrus, pottery, and coffins. The finds date from the Ptolemaic period (305–30 B.C.) through to the Roman era (30 B.C.—390 A.D.).

Basem Gehad has been directing excavations at the Ancient Philadelphia Necropolis in the Egyptian Fayoum since 2016. His team has cleaned tombs that were looted in the late 19 th and early 20 th ...