Archaeologists excavating Luxor in Egypt have discovered an entire 1,800-year-old Roman city.
Mustafa Waziri, general secretary of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the city dates back to the 2nd-3rd century AD. and called it “the oldest and most important city found on the east bank of Luxor”.
“A full-fledged residential village with two pigeon towers has been discovered,” Vaziri can be heard explaining in a video posted to Twitter.
These towers served as nests in which carrier pigeons were bred. The birds were then used to send messages to other parts of the Roman Empire.
Excavations that began in September also unearthed tools and a small hoard of pottery and bronze Roman coins.
Luxor, where the discovery was made, is a modern city on the banks of the Nile, on the site of ancient Thebes. There is the Valley of the Kings, one of the most important areas of ancient Egypt with more than 60 tombs of the pharaohs, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.
Vaziri hailed the new breakthrough as a rare find in an already “excellent” season. Luxor has always been a place rich in archaeological finds, and the city that has been unearthed follows the plethora of tombs discovered in previous days, just before the long-awaited opening of the Great Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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