The watchtower discoveryImage Credit : Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Posted on 05/06/2022 11:05:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists from an Egyptian archaeological mission have discovered 85 tombs, a watch tower and a temple site at Gabal El Haridi in the Sohag region of Egypt.
Previous surveys of Gabal El Haridi have revealed significant archaeological material from the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom to the late Roman Empire and Coptic period.
During the latest season of excavations, researchers found a mudbrick tower that was used to levy taxes and guard the traffic on the Nile River. The tower dates from around the reign of Ptolemy III, the third pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt from 246 to 222 BC.
The team also discovered a Ptolemaic-era temple from roughly the same period that is dedicated to Isis, the Ancient Egyptian goddess first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (2700 BC to 2200 BC). Isis is one of the main characters in the Osiris myth who resurrected Osiris and gave birth to his heir, Horus. The temple site measures 33 metres long by 14 metres in width and consists of a rectangular hall with a series of columns and a limestone flooring.
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The watchtower discoveryImage Credit : Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
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New archaeological discoveries?
Isn’t that an oxymoron?................
That looks too large and too prominent to have been buried and forgotten, sitting as it does on a bluff overlooking the river. This is a part of the world with ruins everywhere. Is this a case of something that was known but unidentified, but enough digging has now been done to contextualize and date it?
Possibly isolated, probably just blended into the landscape, give or take sands blowing in. Also, the whole country is so lousy with ruins, and the local gentry have been woefully uninformed of the origin of most or all of them since Greek times at least.
Is Gabal an alternate spelling of Jebel?
Meaning mount or hill?
Seems likely. The wikipage has some anachronistic BS here and there, but good info otherwise. Just not the meaning of the name. :^)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabal_El_Haridi#Region
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