Posted on 03/23/2014 12:06:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Many major discoveries in Egypt have occurred entirely accidentally, just as in the case of our Valley of the Golden Mummies... Of course, the most recent discovery made by a donkey was the amazing Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariaya Oasis...
When in 1940 the archaeologist Ahmed Fakhry began to conduct a cursory excavation of the ancient settlement known as El Haiz, he found only a few artifacts, but concluded that "Undoubtedly, the larger oasis fifty kilometers north of El Haiz was also thriving during the new Kingdom and will reap much new information about this time in our history."
...The area around El Bawiti to which he referred was for centuries a crucial caravan station for Bedouin traders, merchants, and soldiers, as well as for foreign settlers who lived between Bahariya and Farafra Oasis to the southwest. Bahariya served as a crossroads for various cultures and, as a result, the site represents a cross section of the different types of people who passed through or settled there. It is literally a gold mine of information about religious and social customs from ancient times to the Christian era...
On a knoll opposite the garrison, Fakhry found the remains of a large Coptic church...
Our preliminary survey in 1993 of the area around the fortress revealed a maze of mud-brick walls covering four acres and the remains of a long wall surrounding the entire structure... a very large Roman palace, the likes of which we have not yet seen in Egypt. Once the rooms are fully excavated, the architecture and frescoes will greatly enrich our knowledge of this Roman settlement.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardians.net ...
OK- that would explain the headline-
Hawass Makes Another Archeological Find
“the most recent discovery made by a donkey was the amazing Valley of the Golden Mummies”
Translation: a Dem operative secretly took names at the local cemetery and they all voted obama 6 times and over...
A: An archaeologist.
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