Al-Mudil is the site of a small cemetery located on the eastern side of the Nile, in the vicinity of al-Fašn, some 125km south of Cairo. In 1984, the ‘Mudil Codex’ was found here (see artefact 56). This was said to have been recovered from the grave of a young girl, and was accompanied by a tiny ankh/crux ansata, which acted as a peg used to lock the book (Gabra et. al. 1995, 32). From the photos published in Gabra et. al. 1995., the cemetery is densely packed with pit-burials, with the bodies said to have been simply placed in a pit, wrapped in linen and tied with coloured bandages (Gabra et. al. 1995, plate 4).