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Multi-periodSite Name: Umm El-MawagirCountry: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 4.367 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Upper Egypt (South) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: El Kharga Oasis
Latitude: 25.448900N Longitude: 30.540100E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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A large administrative settlement from ancient Egypt's Second Intermediate Period has been discovered. An American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has discovered what is believed to be the remains of a substantial settlement in Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert. The archaeologists were carrying out routine excavation work within the framework of the Theban Desert Road Survey when they made the discovery. The survey aims to investigate and map ancient desert routes in that portion of the Western Desert.
The settlement, which is laid out on a grid pattern, is 1,000 years older than previous ancient remains found in the Umm Mawagir area in Kharga Oasis.
The find was announced by Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who said that the settlement could be dated to the Second Intermediate period (1664-1569 BC).
Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the newly-discovered settlement was one kilometre long from north to south and 250 metres wide from east to west. It sits astride the bustling trade routes that connected the Nile Valley of Egypt and the desert oases with points as far as Darfur in western Sudan. He continued that archaeological evidence on the site indicated that the inhabitants of the settlement belonged to an administrative and provision centre and were engaged in baking on a massive scale.
More in Al Ahram Weekly
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