Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old tombs and Byzantine remains in Egypt
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Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered nearly 2,000-year-old tombs and the remains of an ancient Byzantine city along the Mediterranean coast and in the Western Desert. At Marina El-Alamein, approximately 100 kilometers west of Alexandria, recent excavations revealed 18 Greco-Roman tombs. Several burial chambers were found with their stone slab closures still in place, and a 2.5-meter granite sarcophagus was discovered with its lid intact, suggesting the burials remained sealed for nearly two millennia. Inside the tombs, archaeologists found human remains, pottery, amphorae, and other funerary objects. Notably, 24 gold items were placed in the mouths of several individuals, a funerary practice linked to beliefs about the afterlife. This site is believed to be the ancient city of Leukaspis, a Mediterranean port that thrived during the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. This latest discovery brings the total number of known tombs at Marina El-Alamein to 44 since the site's identification in 1986. Additionally, in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, archaeologists unearthed the remains of a Byzantine-era village at Ain al-Sabil, dating to approximately the 4th century AD. This city, constructed from mud bricks, features an organized street network, public squares, residential buildings, a basilica-type church, and defensive structures. The site also yielded about 200 ostraca written in Coptic and Greek, as well as bronze and gold coins, some dating to the reign of Roman
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