Revealing a number of buildings and burials from the late eras in the Asyut Governorate.
The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Mir archaeological area in the city of Qusiya in Asyut Governorate has revealed parts of some buildings dating back to the Byzantine era and a number of burials from the late era.
Dr. Mustafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stated this, stressing the importance of this discovery, which indicates the significance of this site during the ancient and middle state eras, as well as the late eras. He referred to the text of prayers and supplications to the early saints that was discovered on one of the walls of these buildings, written in black ink in eight horizontal lines in Coptic script, above shelves of clay and straw that may have been used to place the monk’s necessities and preserve manuscripts.
On the other hand, Dr. Adel Akasha, head of the Central Administration of Middle Egypt Antiquities, said that the buildings discovered in the upper cemetery of the area are kilns consisting of a courtyard and a number of rooms attached to storage areas and a fireplace. As for the burials discovered in the lower cemetery, they found parts of wooden sarcophagi, skeletal structures, and some funerary furniture in a poor state of preservation. He pointed out that one of these burials belongs to a woman whose coffin was found in a poor state of preservation, with only a mask, gloves, and parts of the chest remaining, in addition to a number of pottery vessels of various shapes and sizes, and a group of beads made of blue and black faience, and two copper mirrors.
It is worth noting that the Mir cemetery contains a group of rock-cut tombs dating back to the ancient and middle state eras.