Posted on 02/25/2007 9:04:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv
French archaeologists have found a temple dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Kharga oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the Egyptian state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. The temple is at Dush in the southernmost edge of the oasis and dates from the Persian period, it said. The Persians were active in the Kharga area when they controlled Egypt between 525 and 404 BC and they rebuilt another well-known temple which survives near the main town Kharga... MENA quoted the local director of antiquities as saying the irrigation works dated back to about 500 BC and that the French mission has also found statues and gold coins from the period. Dush lies about 600 km (360 miles) south of Cairo and 200 km (120 miles) west of the Nile valley.
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Jimmy Dunn, InterCity Oz
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