Skeletal analysis in Tombos tombs finds hardworking individuals buried among the elite

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University, Purdue University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara, reassessed physical activity patterns in the community, indicating that individuals interred in pyramid tombs were not exclusively elite officials but included individuals who engaged in physically demanding labor. Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University, Purdue University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara, reassessed physical activity patterns in the community, indicating that individuals interred in pyramid tombs were not exclusively elite officials but included individuals who engaged in physically demanding labor. Archaeology Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories