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They include 68 oval-shaped tombs dating back to the Predynastic Period that spanned from 6000-3150 B.C., the ministry said.

The transition from prehistory to the First Dynasty is known as the predynastic period.

Previously, archaeologists assumed that only women living during ancient Egypt's predynastic period, from 4000 B.C. to 3100 B.C., had tattoos.

The findings, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, concern a mummified man and woman from Egypt’s predynastic period, the era before the country’s unification by the first pharaoh in 3100BC.

Experts say Abydos was Egypt’s capital toward the end of the Predynastic Period and during the rule of the first four dynasties.