Six new tombs are found in Egypt

An egyptian archeologicalmission has discovered six tombs of the pharaoinic era in the hill of the river Nile and with some trousseau that survived to the treasure hunters. With this collection of graves the necropolis is finally completed: the graves belong to the XXVI Dynasty (664-525 BC), time in wich the court established in the city of Sais, in the Nile Delta and at the other end of Egypt and where the dinasty resisted untill the Persian conquest and according to Mustafa Jalil, the leader of one of the egyptian missions that explore this are, these burials match with the architectual style of the time sayed previously.

Of the galleries and rooms of the tombs, the experts have rescued a small fortune: a collection of sarcophagi made by limestone and wood and whee the mummies where laying intact, statues representing the four sons of th God Horus (Amset, Duamuetef, Haoy and Qebehsenuf), keepers of the viscera of the mummi and some amulets in various shapes, sizes and colors and a samall wooden figueres of hawks (thta represents de God Horus).

Another importnat discovery with this area was made by an Spanish group of archielogics. A few meters from this finding, has been working for seven years a Soanish expedition lead by Alejandro Jimenez of the University of Jaen, and last March, the team plus another expedition of the University of Granada, issued an important discovery: the first evidence o breast cancer in the history, found in one of the skeletons of a woman who lived 4200 years ago and that was buried in one of the tombs.