A new archaeological find has surprised the world. It has been in the Eastern Desert of Egypt where 250 graves have been found from a cemetery that apparently would be more than 4,000 years old. We will tell you everything below: An ancient cemetery with 250 tombs over 4,000 years old has been found in Egypt The Ministry of Egyptian Antiquities told the press the discovery of the Al-Hamidiyah cemetery, in the Eastern Desert, with 250 tombs of the times more disparate historical inside. The oldest, experts say, are even 4,200 years old. The discovery site, located 386 kilometers from the city of Cairo, is located on a hill and every tomb was found inside. Although the choice to build such a necropolis is by no means unusual in the history of ancient Egypt, the reasons behind it are still unknown to Egyptologists.According to early analyzes, the oldest tombs, dating from the Old Kingdom (period from 2700 BC to 2192 BC), they preserve a much more complex architectural structure. In them, in fact, corridors decorated with hieroglyphics and paintings were found, which led to the burial chambers, located to the southeast, where some ceramic fragments were also found, probably of some type of vessel where the offerings were placed. This peculiarity in the tombs dating back to 4200 years does not surprise scholars too much. We must not forget that the most famous and imposing constructions of the Egyptian civilization, namely the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, date back to that period, in which the pharaohs from the III to the VI dynasty succeeded one another in sequence, with very similar buildings or mortuary spaces.The secretary general of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, underlined how, in the written engravings found in the tombs, there were also representations in which it was possible to clearly distinguish the representation of some animal sacrifices to the deities of death. “more recent” tombs, on the other hand, date back to the famous Ptolemaic period, thus around 2,100 years ago. At this time, dominated by the descendants of Ptolemy I, one of the former generals of Alexander the Great from 323 BC. C. until 30 a. C., with the death of Cleopatra VII, the funerary structures tended to be simpler, but no less important. Within the latter, many more artifacts related to food and the sacredness of offerings to the dead have been found, such as plates, jugs and even the remains of some animals and humans.