One of the burials which was discovered during the salvage excavation at “Metawah 2022”
This example shows the story of this area and represent how archaeology works
The story start in the late Ptolemaic period when the site was one of the Islands of Lake Mariout, and was used for farming grapes and making wine and Amphorae to export the wine in it.
In the late Roman period the site was abandoned thin it was used for geting quicklime by firing the limestone boulders from the walls of the old constructions in Lime kilne.
After a long abandone phase, the site was used by Bedouin as a cemetery in the 19th and 20th century.
A Bedouin woman which died while giving birth. The head of the Embryo is heading down which means it was in the birth position.
The graves and burials was excavated by the talanted Aya Salem, an Egyptian osteoarchaeologist.
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