The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh perspective on the funerary practices from the 12th and 13th Egyptian dynasties after a restoration project wound up making quite the find.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of the Al-Asasif necropolis in a translated statement, and Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Archaeology, said that the importance of the discovery, the first in the region from the Middle Kingdom, will change the history of the area.