2,000-Year-Old Cemetery and Industrial Complex Discovered in Western Egypt

An international team of archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and Italy’s University of Padua has uncovered several industrial workshops and a burial complex in Egypt’s western Nile Delta region. The discovery took place across two interconnected archaeological sites in the Beheira Governorate: Kom Al-Ahmar and Kom Wasit.The Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Ahram reported the news on December 30. The industrial complex is from the early Ptolemaic Period, around