Archaeologists digging in southern Egypt have unearthed three tombs that date back around 2,000 years, BBC News reported Tuesday. Digging in the burial grounds in the Al-Kamin al-Shrawi area in Minya province, the tombs were discovered at a site just south of Cairo, the report said. The tombs each contained a collection of different sarcophagi, or stone coffins, as well as clay fragments, the report said. Egypt`s antiquities ministry said the discovery `suggests that the area was a great cemetery for a long span of time,` BBC News reported. Describing the tombs, one of the reports said one tombs, which was reached through a shaft carved in rock, contained four sarcophagi that had been...
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