CAIRO, June 24 (World Daily Times) — Archaeologists working at the Panhesy tomb site in Egypt’s Heliopolis necropolis have uncovered a burial cache that the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said includes five pairs of yellow-colored metal earrings, carved scarabs, a copper mirror and other small objects.
The ministry announced the find on May 31 and said the artifacts were found beneath a burial structure containing human remains in the Matariya section of Ain Shams, within the Heliopolis necropolis.
Officials said the earrings may be made of gold. Images released by the ministry also showed cosmetic containers, including two alabaster kohl vessels with traces of ancient eye makeup and a third made of black obsidian.
The cache also included four stones, two believed to be agate. The ministry said the group was the first nearly complete funerary assemblage ever discovered in the area and said the discovery built on earlier finds at the site during the current excavation season, including mudbrick and limestone funerary structures and two coffins found in fragmented condition.
