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Ceremonial Horse Burial Discovered Inside a 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Fortress
A carefully buried horse, grain still resting inside storage vessels and ovens once used to feed a military community have emerged from an ancient Egyptian fortress on the western edge of the Nile Delta. Together, the discoveries offer an unusually intimate view of life behind the walls of a New Kingdom border outpost. The Egyptian…
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More Than 5,500-Year-Old Graves and a Hyksos-Era Settlement Unearthed in Egypt’s Nile Delta
Archaeologists excavating a site in Egypt’s eastern Nile Delta have uncovered evidence of communities that lived and buried their dead there across more than five millennia, from the Predynastic Period to Ptolemaic Egypt. The discoveries at Kom El-Khelgan in Dakahlia Governorate include graves dating back more than 5,500 years, a settlement from the Second Intermediate…
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Hyksos-Era Settlement with Tombs, Kilns and Scarabs Unearthed in Egypt’s Ismailia
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Hyksos-era settlement and cemetery complex at Tell el-Koa in Ismailia, adding new evidence for how communities lived, worked and buried their dead in the eastern Nile Delta during the Second Intermediate Period. The discovery was made by an Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Wadi Tumilat area, a natural corridor…
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Traces of Earlier Settlement and Rare Wild Boar Burials Found Beneath Greco-Roman Cemetery in Egypt
Archaeologists at Tell Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Beheira Governorate have uncovered part of a Greco-Roman cemetery built above much older settlement layers, revealing a site that was used and reused for thousands of years in the Nile Delta. The excavation, carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, revealed graves,…
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Lost 2,400-Year-Old City of Imet Rediscovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta
Archaeologists have rediscovered the ancient city of Imet, hidden for over two millennia in Egypt’s eastern Nile Delta. Excavations led by the University of Manchester and Egypt’s Sadat University have revealed a once-thriving urban center featuring multi-storey tower houses, grain storage facilities, ceremonial roads, and religious artifacts. The site, known as Tell el-Fara’in (also called…