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.).

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Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century. Researchers also uncovered a funerary building, records written on papyrus, pottery, and coffins. The finds ...