Archaeologists have found in Egypt the tomb of the poor times of Cleopatra
Archaeologists have found in Egypt the tomb of the poor times of Cleopatra MOSCOW, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti. Egyptian scientists have unearthed in the Western part of ancient Alexandria several previously unknown rock tombs from the late Ptolemaic carved deep within the rock. Their first pictures were presented on the website of the magazine Luxor Times. Наверх7фотографий7фотографий7фотографий “These tombs were used for a very long time by the ancient Egyptians, most of whom were, apparently, poor. Their walls are covered with lime mortar and partly painted, and some of the tombs were rebuilt, were opened and expanded. This suggests that they were used by several generations of inhabitants of Alexandria,” says Ayman Ashmawy (Aiman Ashmawi), one of the participants in the excavation. His team, according to the archaeologist, opened a huge segment of the ancient cemetery during the excavations that Egyptian scientists were on-site construction of a new railway