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Ruins Of 7,000-Year-Old City Found In Egypt Oasis
Tue Jan 29, 3:26 PM

CAIRO (AFP) - A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.



"An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those constructed during the Greco-Roman period," the council's chief Zahi Hawwas said.

The remnants of the city are "still buried beneath the sand and the details of this discovery will be revealed in due course," Hawwas said.

"The artefacts consist of the remains of walls and houses in terracotta or dressed limestone as well as a large quantity of pottery and the foundations of ovens and grain stores," he added.

The remains date back to the Neolithic period between 5,200 and 4,500 BC.

The local director of antiquities, Ahmed Abdel Alim, said the site was just seven kilometres (four miles) from Fayyum lake and would probably have lain at the water's edge at the time it was inhabited.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080129/world/egypt_archaeology_1

[igotthisguitar]

A mummy of the Greco-Roman era discovered by an archaeological exploration in the monastery cemetery in Fayoum, 60 km (37 miles) south of Cairo, is seen in this undated handout picture made available January 20, 2008.

The mummies are mostly in good condition and covered by cartons.

Others were covered with eight layers of linen and tied with ropes. REUTERS/Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities/Handout (EGYPT).

[Czarjorge]

The city can't be 7,000 years old, as all good Christians know the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

[mistermasan]

don't worry. leaders like huckabee will fix that right after they fix the constitution to god's liking.

[Zutronius]

Neat!

[stillnotking]

Wow... awesome find. Thanks for posting this.

[flip ant]

[Ya-ta Boy]

The part that awes me is that the town was inhabited 2,000 years (give or take) before writing was invented. It used to be thought that writing was invented quite soon after city living developed. This discovery indicates that is not true.

[mindmetoo]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I've always wondered if God wrote the 10 Commandments in Egyptian hieroglyphics and if Moses spoke Hebrew with an Egyptian accent.


I'm anxiously awaiting further news about this Egyptian 'city'. Was it a 'city', a big town, a small town or just a village with a couple dozen houses?

[mindmetoo]

[some waygug-in]

So maybe people shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the work of Micheal Creamo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nLdeKCTgwo&feature=related

[mistermasan]

at the time of hieroglyphs, egypt had another writing system in use, called IIRC hierarctics. this other script was quicker to write and maybe a good analogy is that it was the cursive script of its time. many similarities between hierartic (sp?) and hebrew scripts

[igotthisguitar]

Written "history" is largely a fraud.

The PAST meanwhile, is almost always inevitably something quite different altogether.

Forbidden Truth.

[mindmetoo]