Monday, April 27, 2015

Fragments of 5,200-year-old Memphis city wall found

Archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered fragments of the 5,200-year-old wall that surrounding the Old Kingdom capital of Memphis.

“Several white limestone fragments of the ancient capital’s wall were discovered during excavation work carried out by an archaeology team of the Russian Institute of Egyptology at Kom Tuman, south of Giza Pyramids,” said Damaty.

Memphis was founded from the end of the fourth millennium B.C. by the first Dynasty Pharaoh Menes, who was the first to unify Upper and Lower Egypt kingdoms into a unified state in ancient Egypt history, Director of the Russian archaeological team Galina A. Belova was quoted by the Antiquities Ministry Friday.

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Story: Rany Mostafa, The Cairo Post | Photo: Heide Vanderfort, The Cairo Post

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