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Archaeologists discover 3,000 new Ostraca at Athribis
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Archaeologists discover 3,000 new Ostraca at Athribis
Archaeologists working in Upper Egypt have uncovered around 3,000 ostraca pottery fragments during the current excavation season at the Athribis (Atreps) archaeological site in Sohag province. The discovery raises the total number of ostraca found at the site to approximately 43,000 since excavations began there in 2005, making it the largest known collection of inscribed pottery fragments from a single archaeological location in Egypt. The find…
The Egyptian-German archaeological mission, composed of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the University of Tübingen, has concluded the season of excavations at the Atribis site in Sohag province, with the discovery of 13,000 oysters, fragments of ceramics containing inscriptions in various languages and graphics. The finding reaches 43,000 [...]
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