The Archaeological Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered around 250 several rock tombs at the al-Hamdiya necropolis in the mountains east of the Sohag governorate, as part of documentation and restoration work being done in the area. The Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri explained that the tombs were carved at various levels into the mountain, and some were found with burial wells or ramps ending in a burial chamber. They date back from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Ptolemaic period. One of the Old Kingdom tombs uncovered consists of an entrance leading to a cross-hall and a burial shaft in the south-east side, and a
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