Bronze coins, pottery, and archaeological finds confirm that the city of Damietta was a center for foreign trade throughout various historical eras.

The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities succeeded in uncovering 63 mud-brick tombs and some simple burials containing a group of gold flakes from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty of the Late Period, in addition to a number of bronze coins from the Ptolemaic era, during the mission’s archaeological excavations in the cemetery. Deir Hill in New Damietta City.•