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The temple included a network of water infrastructure, revealing the importance of the ancient city and the Nile.
An intriguing and odd discovery
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The temple included a network of water infrastructure, revealing the importance of the ancient city and the Nile.
An intriguing and odd discovery
Tempio di Vesta, Pietro Dovizielli, c.1850
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On the sun scorched eastern edge of the Nile Delta, where the great river once met the Mediterranean Sea, the landscape is now dominated by sand and quiet ruins. But if you rewind time by over two millennia, this exact spot was a thriving, loud, and incredibly important frontier. Today, archaeologists working in the North Sinai governorate are slowly peeling back the thick layers of sand at a…