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Intact 1,800-Year-Old City Discovered Under Luxor - Look at These Stunning Photographs
westernjournal.com ^ | 1/30/2023 1225 hrs est | Richard Moorhead

Posted on 01/31/2023 5:53:06 AM PST by rktman

Remnants of an ancient city dating back to the Roman Empire have been unearthed in the Egyptian city of Luxor.

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a news release Tuesday.

Images of the site reveal the remains of a residential community.

Authorities are describing the unearthed city as the oldest remaining structures in this area of Luxor.

Mostafa Waziri of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities called the area the “most important and oldest residential city on the eastern mainland in Luxor Governorate,” according to the news release, as translated by Google.

Modern-day Luxor contains the ruins of Thebes, an ancient Egyptian city that dates back thousands of years, according to Britannica.

Waziri said the newly found structures are believed to date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, according to Art News.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ancients; bsheadline; egypt; intactequalsremnants; luxor; remnantsequalsintact; romanempire; thebes
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To: rktman

Maybe those NYers giving up a fridge can still get some good eats with “pigeon towers”!


21 posted on 01/31/2023 6:44:03 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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not exactly stunning.

Imagine the stench of that place with no plumbing. Ugh.


22 posted on 01/31/2023 6:44:07 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: rktman

K, but can i get wifi?


23 posted on 01/31/2023 6:48:17 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Red Badger

Look at the modern city in the background. Almost as bad as the ruins.


24 posted on 01/31/2023 6:49:32 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: SaveFerris

The earliest cities like Ur of the chaldeans were 10,000 people and highly condensed (for safety)


25 posted on 01/31/2023 6:55:53 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Red Badger

Stunning?


26 posted on 01/31/2023 6:56:48 AM PST by newzjunkey (Trump is disloyal and cannot win in 2024)
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To: Cronos

That would make sense.

Given even the low-life scum of that day.


27 posted on 01/31/2023 6:57:16 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: newzjunkey

[Stunning?]

Don’t worry. The Property Brothers can sell it to some fool, err “investor” ...

Investor - yeah, that’s the ticket


28 posted on 01/31/2023 6:58:39 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: central_va

Not a bad hotel, stayed there.


29 posted on 01/31/2023 7:05:26 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: rktman
under-luxor
30 posted on 01/31/2023 7:33:14 AM PST by The Louiswu (- .-. ..- -- .--. / ..--- ----- ..--- ....-)
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To: Red Badger

Itty, bitty, teeny, tiny, little, widdle, city, bitty.


31 posted on 01/31/2023 7:45:32 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: rktman

Hiroshima looked better after a visit by Ms. Enola Gay.


32 posted on 01/31/2023 7:59:15 AM PST by 109ACS (Wanted Dead or Alive: Schrödinger's Cat)
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To: silent majority rising

“Intact”.


33 posted on 01/31/2023 9:53:41 AM PST by skimbell
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To: Red Badger

Yep...looks real stunning. Did Drudge write that headline?


34 posted on 01/31/2023 9:56:00 AM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Lockbar

Alex Jones......................


35 posted on 01/31/2023 9:58:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: rktman

Lose your gambling license in Vegas and the desert takes over in record time.


36 posted on 01/31/2023 10:04:20 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: skimbell

That is a joke that we use in Israel because of all of the antiquities that are buried in Jerusalem. literally, if you dig a whole anywhere, you will dig up some broken pottery, which theoretically could be an excavation. The truth is that if you have 2500 old cultural locations, you have city built upon city, built upon city. Most of what you find is the trash of ancient civilizations.


37 posted on 01/31/2023 12:47:25 PM PST by silent majority rising
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This topic was posted 1/31/2023, thanks rktman.

38 posted on 08/29/2023 8:46:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I love articles about ruins like this, discovering where people lived in previous ages. I read that some archeologists favor sifting through the garbage piles for potsherds and whatever else they can find.
I should have been an archeologist!
Oh well.

Another note, I thought Waziri had been tossed off the council and wasn’t in favor with the current regime.


39 posted on 08/29/2023 9:18:28 PM PDT by oldvirginian ("one more Lord. Please let me save one more." Corporal Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa 1945)
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To: silent majority rising

I read James Michner’s “The Tell” a long time ago. Really interesting stuff on how the first village was built on a bit of a hill for protection. When it would get attacked and destroyed they’d built another town on top of it (and a bit higher). The book starts off with the people on the modern town (and now on a hill, or tell, 100 feet tall or whatever), and then Michner backward in time through the generations and down through the excavations.


40 posted on 08/30/2023 12:29:51 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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