The artifacts are believed to date back to Egypt's Late Period from 664 BC to 332 BC when Damietta served as the center of foreign trade with cities in the Mediterranean© Facebook: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Posted on 07/30/2024 11:57:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists discovered 63 graves Tel-El-Dir - a burial complex in the city of Damietta - that were filled with figurines, pottery, coins and a mirror...
A total of 38 coins found at the site dated back to the Ptolemaic period, (304 to 30BC), when one of Alexander the Great's general's descendants ruled Egypt.
The ancient currency featured images of both ancient Greek and Egyptian gods.
The artifacts and tombs are believed to date back to Egypt's Late Period from 664 BC to 332 BC when Damietta served as the center of foreign trade with cities in the Mediterranean.
The pottery was likely exchanged with other cities, but it was the bronze coins found within a pottery vessel that are indicative of the turmoil that struck the city of Damietta.
The coins appeared to be engraved with the head of the Greek God Zeus and the Egyptian God Ammon...
When the coins were released in 206 BC, the country was undergoing a large-scale revolt led by two native Egyptians, Pharaohs Horwennefer and Ankhwennefer, who set out to overthrow the Greek rule...
After the revolt, there was a mass coin recall and they were given additional markings.
However, the 38 bronze coins found by archaeologists had been stashed away by someone unwilling to meet the demands of the new rulers...
The findings from the 26th dynasty 'confirm the completion of the historical sequence...'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The artifacts are believed to date back to Egypt's Late Period from 664 BC to 332 BC when Damietta served as the center of foreign trade with cities in the Mediterranean© Facebook: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Gold or golden?
Thanks for the link.
Gues they’re not doing the shovel and shut up bit?
So who won?
Horwhenever or Anklewhenever?.................
I can only hope someday to be buried as ruler of the planet with 38 coins.
So that’s who was in the Capitol on January 6th!....................
Thanks, SunkenCiv.
Nothing more profitable than grave robbing;-)
No, they’re archaeologists, not metal detecting thieving yahoos.
Sez here, Horwennefer was succeeded in the revolt to Ankhwennefer, who was defeated and executed by Ptolemy V.
If you strike at the King, you must kill him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think I’d prefer 9mm.
Well yeah, that makes sense.
If you take the 9mm to heaven and everyone else takes coins, you can just take their coins.
My pleasure!
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