the remains of the workshop
Archaeologists Find Ancient Workshop in Sinai
The Egyptian authorities said on Tuesday February 12th that archaeologists had uncovered in the Sinai Peninsula remains of a limestone building, a repair shop for boats and vessels dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman times (332 - 30 BC).
In a report by AP, Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, described the workshop as having two dry dockyards where ships were built or repaired.
According to the Ministry of Antiquities, the results of the excavations at the Tel Abu Saifi archaeological site in Northern Sinai indicate that it is the Roman fortress of Silla.
The work of the Egyptian archaeological mission in the Tel Abu Saifi is completion of a project that was launched at the beginning of the 1990s. It is also part of a plan to develop North Sinai's archaeological sites.
The Greco-Roman period in Egypt extended from the occupation by the army of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC until the Islamic conquest in the seventh century.
Egypt hopes the discoveries will revive tourism, which suffered a major setback during the unrest that followed the 2011 uprising.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/egyptian-ship-0011470
More info and some nice pictures.
Probably the Pelusiac branch of the Nile.
I still don’t know if the Pelusiac Nile ran along there and when it went “extinct.” There is so little in English to go on, and IMO a lot of the physical history is lost forever due to the Suez Canal construction and all that followed.
