Tomb’s treasure may include 6th century image of Christ

The latest excavation of Oxyrhynchus, an ancient Egyptian city and one of the region’s most remarkable archaeological sites, has unearthed potentially revelatory paintings of early Coptic Christians.

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, the Catalan Egyptology Society and the University of Montpellier, recently made their way into an ancient tomb, removing loads of stones and artifacts as they dug their way into the giant burial room.

The tomb was the resting place for a scribe who lived during the Coptic Roman period and died at the age of 17. But the tomb has been called exceptional, not for what’s in it but what’s on it.