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Multi-periodSite Name: Umm El-Mawagir
Country: 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
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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.

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The Lost City - a discovery in the desert could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt. by Andy B on Friday, 27 August 2010
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For much of the twentieth century, Egyptologists shied away from explorations in the vast sand sea known as the Western Desert. An expanse of desolation the size of Texas, the desert seemed too harsh, too implacable, too unforgiving a place for an ancient civilization nurtured on the abundance of the Nile. In spring, a hot, stifling wind known as the Khamsin roars across the Western Desert, sweeping up walls of suffocating sand and dust; in summer, daytime heat sometimes pushes the mercury into the 130 degree–Fahrenheit range. The animals, what few there are, tend to be unfriendly. Scorpions lurk under the rocks, cobras bask in the early morning sun. Vipers lie buried under the sand.

When Egyptologists finally began investigating the Western Desert, they gravitated first to the oases. But in 1992, a young American graduate student, John Coleman Darnell, and his wife and fellow graduate student, Deborah, decided to take a very different tack. The couple began trekking ancient desert roads and caravan tracks along what they called "the final frontier of Egyptology." Today, John Darnell, an Egyptologist in Yale's Near Eastern Languages and Civilization department, and his team have succeeded in doing what most Egyptologists merely dream of: discovering a lost pharaonic city of administrative buildings, military housing, small industries, and artisan workshops. Says Darnell, of a find that promises to rewrite a major chapter in ancient Egyptian history, "We were really shocked."

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