The burial site of what is thought to be an important family dates back to 350 BC .

The mummies were found in four burial chambers nine meters underground in the Tuna El-Gebel site in Minya.

The bodies include 12 children and were found wrapped in linen and encased in either stone coffins or wooden sarcophogi.

Egyptologists at the Supreme Council of Antiquities have not immediately been able to identify the bodies from the Ptolemaic period more than 2000 years ago because no  names were written in hieroglyphics.

Dignitaries and ambassadors from several countries were invited to the discovery site were 40 of the mummies were displayed.

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The terrorists died in a firefight in the desert around Minya.

The Islamists attack the buses and robbed the passengers before killing seven of them. 

A further 18 were wounded.

It took place on the road to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor where a  similar onslaught in May last year killed 28 Christians.

The Copts, who make up a tenth of Egypt’s 98-million population, say the government is not providing them enough protection.

They ask why the authorities could not prevent  a repeat of the lethal attack.

Christian youths blocked the railway line between Cairo and Upper Egypt chanting: “Either we avenge them or we die like them.”

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