CAIRO, June 24 (World Daily Times) — Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a burial cache of earrings, scarabs and other artifacts beneath a tomb structure at the Panhesy site in Heliopolis, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said May 31.
The ministry said the find came from the Matariya archaeological section of Ain Shams, within the Heliopolis necropolis, and was found beneath a burial structure that contained human remains.
Officials said the cache included five pairs of yellow-colored metal earrings that archaeologists believe may be made of gold, along with carved scarabs, cosmetic containers and a copper mirror. The ministry also released images showing two alabaster kohl containers with traces of ancient eye makeup, a third kohl container made of black obsidian and four stones, two of which are believed to be agate.
The ministry called the cache the “first nearly complete funerary assemblage ever discovered in the area” and said the discovery built on earlier finds this excavation season, including mudbrick and limestone funerary structures and two coffins found in fragmented condition.
