Ushabti statuette found on site exempt the occupant of the forced work grave in the beyond.
Vibrant, musical and spiritual urban center is about 2500 years old and has now been “unearthed” in the Nile Delta. Alexandre, the great seems to have changed the religious routines of the ancient city.
An Egyptian city lost will have recently been discovered during excavations in the Nile Deltawhere there were found houses and a ceremonial building dedicated to Wadget, the goddess of Baixo Egypt whose name means “to green”-the color of the snakes.
The recently revealed zone will even be the old city of Wonderswhich would have been built during the late period of Egypt (c. 664 to 332 BC), before the conquest of Alexander the Great, and the Macedonian Ptoolomaica Dynasty, known for witnessing Cleopatra’s sovereignty.
“IMET is emerging as a key site to rethink the archeology of Egypt of the late period,” said the Egyptologist in, Nicky NielsenSenior Professor of Egyptology in Manchester who led the excavation.
The new discoveries were only revealed thanks to high resolution satellite imageswhich revealed clusters of adobe bricks (raw earth, water and straw and sometimes other fibers) that suggested the presence of huge residential structures.
“His presence here shows that IMET was a prosperous and densely built city, with a complex urban infrastructure,” said Nielsen.
Na Antiiga Imet, Em Tell Nebeshawhere the excavations began 200 years ago, more homes were found, “rare in other parts of Egypt”, which pointed to the creation of an architectural response to population growth and an advanced urban organization social and economically.
The international team also found paved areas for cereal and barns grinding. But it was a large building, with limestone plaster and gigantic pillars that most surprised the archaeologists. Was on the old processional road that led to Wadjet Templethe protective goddess of Baixo Egypt, traditionally represented as a winged snake or a woman with a snake head.
However, the place was abandoned when the defeat of the Empire, in the hands of the Greeks Macedonians led by Alexandre, the Great, and the religious routines underwent drastic changes. Until then, it was the goddess Cobra who protected this community.
Among the artifacts found in the ruins, the team highlights a Ushabti in a green finger of the seventh century BC, a stele with the god Harpocrates and protective symbols and a musical instrument associated with the goddess Hathor, a symbol of joy and music. According to it, a pan with remains of fish stew was also found, prepared in the SEUCUO IV AC
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
