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drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut. The limestone blocks...
- Discoveries At Tanis, And A Need For Sponsorship
Tanis/ San el-Hagar website From Charlotte Lejeune [email protected] I have some news from the new lake of Mut, in Tanis (San el-hagar, Egypt). I belong to the Tanis French mission (MFFT). After many years looking for the lake at the Mut temple,...
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- Ancient Military Town Dating Back To 26th Dynasty Discovered In Ismailiya
drhawass.com With photos Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced today that a Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) archaeological mission in Ismailia Governorate has revealed the remains of a military town, dated to the 26th Dynasty (ca. 664-625...
- Pumping Water Away From The Great Sphinx
Egypt Daily Star News ()Yehia Darwish) Within two months the Archeological Engineering Center at Cairo University (AEC) will pump out the underground water in the area surrounding the Sphinx in a LE 2 million project, Zahi Hawass, secretary general of...
Egypt
News: Four wells discovered
Egypt State Information Service
Egyptian -French archaeologists have unearthed in El Sharqiya governorate four ancient wells that date back to the 25th and 26th pharaonic dynasties.
The wells are part of a newly-discovered Sacred Lake in a temple to the Egyptian goddess Mut in the ruins of ancient Tanis.
Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General Zahi Hawwas said on Sunday 8/11/2009 the wells vary in shape and size.
Two of them have circular shapes with a 210-220 cm diameter, while the other two are square.
They are believed to have been used by the people for daily purposes, he added.
The Sacred Lake was uncovered in October.It was found 12 meters below ground at the San al-Hagar archaeological site in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta and was 15 meters long and 12 meters wide and built out of limestone blocks. It was in good condition.
It was the second sacred lake found at Tanis, which became the northern capital of ancient Egypt in the 21st pharaonic dynasty, over 3,000 years
ago.
The first lake at the site was found in 1928.The goddess Mut, sometimes depicted as a vulture, was the wife of Amun, god of wind and the breath of life. She was also mother of the moon god Khonsu.
- Artefacts Discovered In North Egypt's San El-hagar
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut. The limestone blocks...
- Discoveries At Tanis, And A Need For Sponsorship
Tanis/ San el-Hagar website From Charlotte Lejeune [email protected] I have some news from the new lake of Mut, in Tanis (San el-hagar, Egypt). I belong to the Tanis French mission (MFFT). After many years looking for the lake at the Mut temple,...
- In The Field: Temple Of Berenike Discovered At Kom El Dikka
drhawass.com Press Release. With photos. An archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) led by Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, Head of Antiquities of Lower Egypt, discovered the remains of a temple of Queen Berenike, the wife of king...
- Ancient Military Town Dating Back To 26th Dynasty Discovered In Ismailiya
drhawass.com With photos Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced today that a Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) archaeological mission in Ismailia Governorate has revealed the remains of a military town, dated to the 26th Dynasty (ca. 664-625...
- Pumping Water Away From The Great Sphinx
Egypt Daily Star News ()Yehia Darwish) Within two months the Archeological Engineering Center at Cairo University (AEC) will pump out the underground water in the area surrounding the Sphinx in a LE 2 million project, Zahi Hawass, secretary general of...