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An international team of archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the University of Padua in Italy discovered multiple industrial workshops and a tomb complex in the western Nile Delta region of Egypt. The discovery occurred at two interconnected archaeological sites in Behira Governorate: Kom Al-Ahmar and Kom Wasit.
egyptian daily pyramid The news was reported on December 30. The industrial complex was built in the early Ptolemaic period, around 300 BC, and the nearby necropolis was built in the subsequent Roman period. The find includes the remains of a large building divided into six rooms.
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Archaeologists found nearly 10,000 fish bones in two of the rooms, indicating that the facility was used for salted fish production, an important manufacturing activity during this period. Other rooms were used for other types of manufacturing, based on other artifacts—pottery shards, imported jars, amulets, and tools.
The Roman-era cemetery contains the remains of 23 men, women, children and teenagers buried in a variety of ways: underground, individuals buried in earthenware coffins, and children buried in large earthenware jars called terracottas. Sophora japonica.
Mohammad Ismail Khalid, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, commented: “These findings enrich research on settlement patterns, funerary traditions and industrial production, while providing new perspectives on regional interactions from the late to the Roman and early Islamic eras.”
The University of Padua research team plans to further analyze the human remains to learn more about the age, diet and health of these people. Meanwhile, many non-human artifacts (tools, pottery, jewelry) are being moved to the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza.
