CAIRO: Archeologists in southern Egypt have uncovered a 5,600-year-old safeguarded tomb and mummy originating before the First Dynasty of the pharaohs, the artifacts service said Wednesday.

The tomb was assembled before the standard of ruler Narmer, the originator of the First Dynasty who brought together Upper and Lower Egypt in the 31th century BC, the service said in an articulation.

The tomb was ran across in the Kom al-Ahmar area, between Luxor and Aswan, on the site of Hierakonpolis, the city of the hawk, which was the predominant predynastic urban focus and the capital of the Kingdom of Upper Egypt.

The archeologists discovered an ivory statue of an unshaven man and the mummy of the tomb's holder, who seemed to have passed on in his late teen years, the service said.

The tomb's protected state will give new data on predynastic customs, said Renee Friedman, the leader of the multinational archeological group.

The tombs of ruler Narmer and lord Ra, a predynastic pharaoh who made ready to Egypt's unification, were beforehand found in Hierakonpolis.