The pyramid builders

More than 4,000 years old

The tombs date back to between 2575 BC and 2467 BC and it was during this time that the great pyramids were built, the Daily Mail quoted Head of Egypts Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass as saying.

Conical,mud-brick tombs

The workers tombs were usually conical in shape and made from mud brick. They would then be covered in white plaster. The most important of the new discoveries was a tomb belonging to a man named Idu. It was a regular structure with a plaster-covered mud brick casing. The tomb containing skeletal remains and featured burial shafts encased in white limestone and clay pots.