Large Fortress And Wall Uncovered On The Nile Delta Mark Power Of Egypt’s Canal Of the Pharaohs
AncientPages.com | December 29, 2017
Impressive ancient walls belonging to a fortress located on Egypt’s Canal of the Pharaohs, in Tell el-Maskhuta, has been unearthed by a team of Italian archaeologists working for the National Research Council (CNR).
The place of this discovery is now “one of the largest fortresses on the Nile Delta and most likely the best preserved from the age before that of ancient Rome,†ANSAmed reports.
The site Tell el-Maskhuta is situated in northeast of Cairo, along the Ismailia Canal and was already in the 1800s visited by archaeologists who documented a huge quadrangular walled city existing there.
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