Archaeologists Unearth An Incredible ‘Complete Roman City’ Almost 2,000 Years Old

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Some archaeologists in Egypt recently completed the excavation of a small Roman city in the capital of Luxor. This incredible and classical city contained homes, workshops, and what’s known as “pigeon towers,” which were ancient structures used in both farming and in raising pigeons.

As for Dr. Mostafa Waziri of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, he explained just how amazing and important their discovery was, considering that it’s the oldest Roman residential city found on the eastern side of the modern-day Luxor Governorate. This was a city that was considered an extension of the age-old capital of Thebes.


As for the workshops, which were used to manufacture and smelt metals, there were various water bottles, pots, flasks, bells, grinding tools used for food preparation, and copper and bronze Roman coins found inside.

And as mentioned earlier there were pigeon towers, which were used to house the birds which they kept as livestock. Pigeons at that time were called rock doves, and they preferred to make their nests on the rocky cliffsides located there. The Roman pigeon keepers that were alive at that time would put pots up in the towers, which the birds would actually use to build their nests.


Meanwhile, Dr. Waziri shared a video on his Twitter account that shows him explaining what they found on the site in Arabic, and that the word “hamman,” which viewers can hear him say, is actually a word for baths.

These Roman baths were originally discovered in this city back in the 1980s when there were ongoing excavations by a different team, that time German-Egyptian group led by Jacek Kościuk, who happened to be a professor emeritus at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology located in Poland.

Back in January, Dr. Kościuk sent their published scientific work to Live Science that talked about the excavations in 2011, which also included the baths they discovered.

After this recent excavation, Dr. Waziri and his team has dated the Roman city to the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. This means that it was probably around the time of the highly influential Roman Emperor known as Diocletian, who reigned during 284 to 305 CE. This was a time when Egypt was considered a Roman imperial province as the pharaohs were already no longer around.

 

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