First Cemetery Dated To Roman Period Discovered In North Saqqara, Egypt

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Egypt Today reports the discovery of an archaeological cemetery in Saqqara.

It is the first cemetery from the Roman era in this region, unearthed by a team of Egyptian-Japanese archaeologists excavating in North Saqqara.

The Step Pyramid of Djoser (aka Netjerikhet). source

Led by Nozomu Kawai of Kanazawa University and Waseda University in Japan, archaeologists found a Roman catacomb tomb, spanning back to the first and second centuries AD.

The discovery was made in the old area of Saqqara, where no excavation work has been carried out before.

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