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| MitRahina Archaeological Site (aren't the trees at the back where that fire was in the infamous video of the 'temple on fire'?) |
Nevine El-Aref, 'Ancient Egyptian objects recovered in Mit-Rahina', Al-Ahram, Tuesday 27 Aug 2013
While on routine inspection at Mit-Rahina, the Tourism and Antiquities Police uncovered on Tuesday a plastic bag concealing Ancient Egyptian artefacts. The bag was found half-buried in the botanical area behind the Hathor Temple archaeological site, located 24 km south of Cairo. Minister of State for Antiquities (MSA) Mohamed Ibrahim told Ahram Online that the bag contains seven objects, three of which were reported missing from the Mit-Rahina gallery during the violence that erupted in the aftermath of the January 2011 Revolution. The other four items, he said, resulted from illegal excavation in the site. Adel Hussein, head of the MSA's Ancient Egyptian Archaeological Section, explains that the three previously missing objects include a partly-damaged clay plate, a red clay pot and an alabaster cylindrical pot with a round base. The other four objects are also clay pots of different shapes, colours and sizes.Half-buried they say, and it only took two and a half years to find them...
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