(via Ancient Egyptian Tombs Discovered Dating Back Before the Pyramids)
… 68 were constructed during the Buto 1 and 2 civilizations, which began in 3300 BCE; five were constructed during the Naqada III civilization, which preceded the unification of Egypt in 3000 BCE; and the remaining 37 were constructed during the [Second Intermediate Period] known as the Hyksos period, when Western Asian nomads wrested control of the country from the pharaohs between 1650 BCE and 1500 BCE, according to Al Jazeera.
“This is an extremely interesting cemetery because it combines some of the earliest periods of Egyptian history with another important era, the time of the Hyksos,” Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, told Reuters. “[Scholars] are working to understand how the Egyptians and the Hyksos lived together and to what degree the former took on Egyptian traditions.” …