‘Entire Roman city’ discovered near Luxor, Egypt

remains of“an entire Roman city” were discovered in Luxor. According to the Ministry of Antiquities, it is “an entire residential city” from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, which was discovered “on the east bank of the Nile, near the Luxor Temple”About 500 km south of Cairo. In this “Expansion of Ancient Thebes”have already been updated “Metallurgical Workshops” with multiple devices and “Copper and Bronze Roman Coins”Mustafa Vaziri, the custodian of antiquities, explains that “The Digging Continues”,

Already in 2021, an Egyptian archaeological mission discovered “the largest ancient city in Egypt”, more than 3000 years old, on the west bank of Luxor, where the famous Valleys of the Kings and Queens are located. In recent months, Egypt has revealed several major discoveries, mainly at the necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo, but also in Luxor in January, of the tomb of a royal wife of 18.^I dynasty, of Akhenaton and Tutankhamen, which dates back 3500 years. For some experts, these announcement effects have more political and economic significance than scientific significance.

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The country, in dire economic straits, is counting on tourism to straighten out its finances: its government is targeting 30 million tourists per year by 2028, up from 13 million before COVID-19. To revive the sector, which has been at half-mast since the Arab Spring in 2011, employs two million people and generates more than 10% of GDP, Cairo has been promising for months its imminent opening. doing. “Great Egyptian Museum”, near the Giza plateau. Many had predicted this in 2022, the bicentenary of the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone by Frenchman Jean-François Champollion and the centenary of the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s baby tomb.

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