The joint Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission, which worked around the Aga Khan mausoleum west of Aswan, managed to uncover a number of previously unknown family tombs dating from the Late Period and Greco-Roman periods.
The significance of this discovery is that it adds new history to the Aga Khan area, as some of the tombs discovered still contain parts of mummies and remains of funerary tools, which contributes to knowing more information about that period and some of the diseases prevalent during it, and at the same time foreshadows the discovery of more tombs in the area.
The number of tombs discovered is about 33, all from the Late Period and the Greek and Roman periods, studies carried out on the remains of mummies inside them indicate that approximately 30% or 40% of those buried in them died in their youth or from newborn to adulthood. Regarding the architectural planning of the discovered tombs, some of them have an entrance preceded by an open courtyard surrounded by adobe walls, while others are carved directly into the rock of the mountain.
Among what was discovered inside the tombs were several mummies, including a mummy of an adult, perhaps a woman, and a child who probably died when he was one or two years old, and the two bodies are still found joined together inside a stone coffin, which the mission will study in the coming times to determine the relationship between them, in addition to some remains of colored and shaped Cartonajes made of baked clay, stones, wooden coffins and offering tables. From the initial studies on the mummies it became clear that some of them suffered from infectious diseases and others suffered from some bone disorders. The mission will continue its work at the site, in an attempt to discover more.