Importance and vision ahead
According to the ministry, the project is crucial for enhancing our understanding of the techniques ancient Egyptians used to extract gold from rocks.
The researchers suggest that the findings shed light on Egypt’s ancient mining industry and the daily lives of its workers. “It also provides valuable insight into the social, religious, and economic lives of mining workers in industrial cities across the Eastern Desert throughout different historical periods,” the ministry says in a press release.
“Within weeks, to the team’s great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions,” Zahi Hawass, archaeologist and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt who found the city, says. “What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a good condition of preservation, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life.”