Remains of ancient buildings discovered in Assiut

 In the city of Al-Qusia, Assiut governorate, Egyptian archaeologists have found fragments of several ancient structures going back to the Byzantine era.

The Coptic text, which was carved on one of the walls of those buildings and was written in eight horizontal lines of black ink, was mentioned by Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in his emphasis on the significance of this finding. 

According to Adel Okasha, director of Middle Egypt's Central Department of Antiquities, the structures found in the area's top cemetery are pans, which have a courtyard, many rooms adjacent to it, storage spaces, and a fireplace. Parts of wooden coffins, skeletons, and some funerary furnishings were discovered in the lower cemetery and were in bad condition, indicating that one of these burials belonged to a woman whose coffin was discovered in a terrible condition. Few clay pots of various shapes and sizes, a set of blue and black faience beads, two copper coins, a mask, two palms, and portions of the chest are all that are left of it.

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It should be noted that the cemetery has a collection of Old and Middle Kingdom rock tombs that have been completely carved out of the rock.

A number of pots and amphorae from the late and Greco-Roman eras were discovered a few days earlier by a joint archaeological mission led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Italian National Research Council's Institute for Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CNR) at the Tell Al-Maskhouta site in the Ismailia governorate.

Mostafa Waziri, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stressed the relevance of this discovery since it sheds light on the region's historical significance as a major hub for trade.

He went on to remark that, like Egypt, this region had been a centre for international trade and communication throughout the time of the Romans. The Sesostris Canal, which connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean at the time, was a crucial piece of infrastructure that made this feasible.

The mission's leader, Andrea Angelina, noted that the team also uncovered a sizable slope that rises to the top of the sizable wall that was found during digs in 2017, which corresponds to the northern side of the city's great wall. Along with the corridor to the east, which was employed to safeguard trade convoys, levy taxes, and customs, and fend off any eastward attack.

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