Sinai Secrets and the Lure of Lost Temples
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It is Monday, April twentieth, two thousand twenty-six. Let’s dive in.
Archaeology and art history collide today with news of a discovery in northern Sinai: an Egyptian archeological mission announced it has found a temple complex at Tell el-Farama, the site of the ancient city of Pelusium. The ruins include a large circular basin about 100 feet in diameter, once connected to an easternmost branch of the Nile that has long since dried up. Around the basin is a drainage system, and at the center sits a square plinth that may have held a statue of the local deity Pelusius. The team, working under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, first uncovered the structure in 2019 and initially thought it was civic. But Dr. Hisham Hussein said ongoing excavation and comparative studies indicate it was a sacred water installation used in rituals, built in the 2nd century BC and used through the 6th century AD.
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