Three rock-cut tombs each more than 2,000 years old were recently discovered 125 miles south of Cairo, Egypt in the Nile Valley province of Minya. They are located in an area call El-Kamin El-Sahrawi which is near the city of Samalut. This discovery was announced by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. The three tombs contain several coffins or sarcophagi which are in different sizes. They found clay fragments as well. From analysis of the clay fragments it has been concluded that the three tombs span the 27th Dynasty. The 27th dynasty was when Egypt became a province of the Persian Achaemenid. Then nearly a century later the period of the Roman Ptolemic rule began. Bones found at the site were from men, women, and children of different
