City Lost For 7,000 Years Discovered In Egypt
U.S. archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what they believe to be a 7,000 year old city for farmers in Egypt’s Fayyum oasis. “An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those constructed during the Greco-Roman period,” the council of antiquities’ chief Zahi Hawwas said.
The remains of the city are “still buried beneath the sand and the details of this discovery will be revealed in due course,” Hawwas said. “The artefacts consist of the remains of walls and houses in terracotta or dressed limestone as well as a large quantity of pottery and the foundations of ovens and grain stores,” he added.
Archaeologists believe that the remains date back to the Neolithic period between 5,200 and 4,500 BC. The local director of antiquities, Ahmed Abdel Alim, said the site was just seven kilometres (four miles) from Fayyum lake and would probably have lain at the water’s edge at the time it was inhabited.