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Archaeologists revealed a well-preserved Byzantine-era residential city at the Dakhla Oasis and at Marina el-Alamein near Alexandria, including a mid-fourth-century basilica, watchtowers, house-church remains, ovens, tools, and hundreds of artifacts such as bronze and gold coins and octraca inscriptions, offering new insights into daily life and commerce in Byzantine Egypt as the country eyes a tourism revival.
Archaeologists uncover a well-preserved fourth-century Byzantine city in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, featuring a basilica, residential streets and daily-life artifacts; separately, 18 tombs at Marina el-Alamein near Alexandria — bringing the site total to 48 — and a granite sarcophagus with associated finds, illuminate urban planning, trade and funerary practices in Byzantine and Greco-Roman Egypt.
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a well-preserved Byzantine-era residential city at the Dakhla Oasis, including a mid–fourth-century basilica, streets and dwellings, with watchtowers and everyday life artefacts. Nearby Marina el-Alamein yielded 18 tombs (bringing the site’s total to 48) and a cache of coins, Latin inscriptions, and Christian symbols, along with writing fragments that illuminate ancient commerce. Officials say the discoveries could boost Egypt’s tourism as the sector recovers, and the Dakhla Oasis site is on UNESCO’s Tentative List.