"It's hard to know where all these people were coming from," Professor Muhlestein told Live Science.
Another interesting find was that the corpses appeared to be grouped together by hair colour, with one section containing the remains of those with blonde hair and another for those with red hair.
The bodies, which included a man of more than seven feet in height, are thought to be of ordinary citizens, rather than the royalty found at many famous Egyptian sites. They were not buried in coffins, according to Muhlestein, and were in fact mummified not by design but by the arid natural environment.
"The burials are not in tombs, but rather in a field of sand," he told RT.com
The graves are around 1,500 years old(Photo: Facebook/BYU in Egypt)
"The people in the cemetery represent the common man. They are the average people who are usually hard to learn about because they are not very visible in written sources. A lot of their wealth, or the little that they had, was poured into these burials."
So far around 1,700 graves have been uncovered(Photo: Facebook/BYU in Egypt)
His team discovered objects including glassware, jewellery and linen. The findings were presented to the Scholars Colloquim at the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in Toronto last month.
Glassware has been found at the site (Photo: Facebook/BYU in Egypt)
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