![]() It’s a race against time, and we’re grateful that we have the active support of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Of course, this also endangers the ancient sites, so we’re conducting the relevant rescue excavations at the Temple of Heliopolis. Consequently, there’s a huge need for construction land and infrastructure projects. The population of Egypt is increasing by well over a million people each year. When the Napoleonic expedition took measurements there in the early 19th century, the temple complex was still a long way outside the city. The problem is that it’s in the middle of the city. In terms of surface area, the temple at Heliopolis was the largest in Egypt. ![]() Aiman Ashmawy of Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, you’ve led an Egyptian-German team of researchers that has also made interesting discoveries in ancient Heliopolis. The ruins of Heliopolis abut the modern sprawl of Cairo Image: Dietrich Raue Read more: The secrets of the Luxor mummies revealed If you look at old maps from the 19th century, you can see that there are lots of places where there’s still something to be excavated people just haven’t got around to it until now. More than 50,000 people lived in Memphis, probably even more at times. For more than 3,000 years, it was the main cemetery of the Egyptian capital, Memphis. The same is true of the great cemeteries like the one in Saqqara. How is it possible that spectacular finds are still being made?ĭietrich Raue: By no means has everything been discovered and excavated around the Pyramids and in the Valley of the Kings. Raue, people tend to assume that, in Egypt, everything important has already been discovered, particularly in the vicinity of the Pyramids or in the Valley of the Kings. Some of these finds can be dated to the 12th and 20th dynasties of the Ancient Egyptians, making them around 4,000 years old.ĭW: Dr. And in November an Egyptian-German research team unearthed some fascinating limestone blocks with very old inscriptions in the ancient city of Heliopolis, now an impoverished suburb of Cairo. A necropolis with dozens of stone sarcophagi and artistic treasures was discovered in the spring near the Nile Valley city of Minya. Gilded mummy masks were found in July, also at Saqqara. It belonged to a high priest called Wahtye, and is more than 4,000 years old. At the beginning of December, archaeologists presented their discovery of an extremely well-preserved tomb at Saqqara near Cairo.
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