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More re discoveries at Beni Suef

Actualidad Terra

This piece adds a few details to previous reports on the discovery. My rough interpretation of this piece is fragmented - partly because of my rusty Spanish but partly because the story itself seems a bit vague. If anyone can do a better job of it please let me know. I'll post anything else that I find.

The Spanish team are from the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid under the direction of Carmen Pérez Die. They uncovered three false portals and offering tables from rock cut tombs dating to the First Intermediate period, in the Beni Suef area. Zahi Hawass stated that the false portals were found in a tomb which had been destroyed and set alight in the past. Other finds include the remains of mud-brick and limestone tombs and ceramic fragments which probably date to the Old Kingdom. There's a photograph on the above page.

Un equipo de expertos del Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid ha descubierto a unos 120 kilómetros al sur de El Cairo un conjunto de antigüedades faraónicas que datan de hace más de 4.000 años, informó hoy la prensa egipcia.

Los arqueólogos españoles encontraron tres puertas 'falsas' de tumbas y fabricadas de roca, y dos mesas de ofrendas en la localidad de Egnasia, provincia de Bani Suef, precisó el ministro egipcio de Cultura, Faruq Hosni, citado por la prensa.

El hallazgo se produjo durante excavaciones llevadas a cabo últimamente por el equipo de arqueólogos que es encabezado por la reputada experta española Carmen Pérez Die, subrayó el ministro.

Las piezas datan del Primer Periodo Intermedio de la Época faraónica (2040-2191 a.C.).

See the above page for the full story.

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