WORLD BRIEFING / EGYPT
Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed four temples amid the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city that could have been used to impress foreign delegations visiting Egypt, antiquities authorities announced.
Among the discoveries was the largest mud brick temple found in the Sinai, measuring 77 yards by 87 yards. It was fortified with mud walls 10 feet thick, said Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The find was made in Qantara, 2.5 miles east of the Suez Canal. Archaeologists are digging on the military road known as Way of Horus. Horus was a falcon-headed god who represented the greatest cosmic powers for ancient Egyptians.
The path once connected Egypt to Palestine and runs close to present-day Rafah, which borders the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
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