Part of the Roman residential area that archaeologists uncovered in Luxor.Image credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Posted on 01/30/2023 8:57:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...a number of residential buildings, along with workshops and pigeon towers..., according to a ministry statement, which noted that this is the "first complete residential city" from the Roman Empire era found in east Luxor. A variety of artifacts were also uncovered, including pottery, bells, grinding tools (often used for food preparation), and Roman coins made of copper and bronze...
Susanna McFadden, a professor of art history at the University of Hong Kong who specializes in Greco-Roman art, called the finds "exciting news." She is curious to learn how the team determined that the remains dated to the second and third centuries A.D.
She also wonders if there could be a relationship between this settlement and a military camp that was active in the area during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian (reign circa 284 to 305). "It stands to reason that a residential area servicing the camp would have grown up outside the walls," McFadden told Live Science in an email.
Another scholar noted that this Roman residential area is not an entirely new find. The residential area in Luxor has "been known for a long time," Jacek Kosciuk, professor emeritus at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, told Live Science in an email.
Kosciuk participated in excavations of Roman residential remains at Luxor that were carried out by an Egyptian-German team in the early 1980s. He sent Live Science two(opens in new tab) papers(opens in new tab), published in 2011 in the journal Bulletin de la Societe d'Archeologie Copte (Bulletin of the Coptic Archaeological Society), noting that while the 1980s team was able to survey only a small part of the settlement, they found the remains of Roman houses and baths...
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Part of the Roman residential area that archaeologists uncovered in Luxor.Image credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Italian guys in Brooklyn keep pigeon coops. Must be hereditary.
Once he stopped maintaining it the bats took over, so Coalition Force GIs called it "the bat house."
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