CAIRO, July 23 Archaeologists have discovered 38 Ptolemaic-era bronze coins, ceramic vessels, funerary amulets and figurines during excavations in Egypt's northern Damietta province, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said. countries.
The findings confirm that in ancient times, Damietta, located where the Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, played an important role in trade with other Mediterranean cities. 
«The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has discovered 63 mud-brick burials and several simple burials,» the ministry said in a statement.
The excavations were reportedly carried out in the Tell ed-Deir cemetery area in the city of Damietta el-Gedida.
The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Department, Ayman Ashmawy, said the mission found a number of funerary amulets, figurines, clay pots, ceramic dishes, and 38 bronze coins from the Ptolemaic era inside the burials.
Mission leader Qutb Fawzi stressed that the mission also managed to discover a large adobe cemetery, which contained a number of burials of high social status.
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