Three false doors inscribed with religious texts, two offering tables and a collection of clay vessels are the latest finds at the Ehnasya Al-Medina cemetery, lying on the west bank of the Nile almost 15km west of the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Sweif. Archaeologists now believe that parts of the necropolis were deliberately set on fire at some point in its history.

In addition to the false doors, the Spanish team found two funerary offering tables and a new tomb in the former ancient capital of Herakleopolis—today referred to by its Arabic name Ihnasya el-Medina—about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Cairo. The latest finds, along with the team's new studies of the site's charred remains, could offer a fresh look at the poorly understood First Intermediate Period.

A handout picture released on February 21, 2008 by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities shows the site where three stone doors were discovered by a group of Spanish archaeologists. The doors date back to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2191-2040 BC) from the city of Ahnasia in the Beni Sueif governorate, 120 kms south of Cairo.