Egypt

Doors to History

Egypt Daily Star News

A handout picture released on February 21, 2008 by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities shows the site where three stone doors were discovered by a group of Spanish archaeologists. The doors date back to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2191-2040 BC) from the city of Ahnasia in the Beni Sueif governorate, 120 kms south of Cairo.

See the above page for the two photographs.

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