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Scientists testing new scanning technology discover mysterious structure beneath an ancient Egyptian city
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Scientists testing new scanning technology discover mysterious structure beneath an ancient Egyptian city
Archaeologists working in Egypt's Nile Delta may have discovered a tomb or temple dating back around 2,600 years while testing a new technology designed to locate structures buried deep beneath the surface. The team was studying the Buto (Tell el-Fara'in) site, the ruins of an ancient city that was occupied from the Predynastic period (around 3800 BCE) to the Early Islamic era (7th century CE).
A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and geophysicists has been able to detect buried structures of the XXVI Dynasty (Saitan period) in the Tell el-Fara’in site, the ancient Buto, in the northwest of the Nile Delta. The discovery has been made possible by the combination of images of the Sentinel-1 radar satellite, electrical tomography of the subsoil and a [...]
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