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| Sunday, 02 December 2007 | |
 Egyptian official sources have announced on Sunday that remains of an ancient dam dating back some 4,000 years have been discovered in Upper EgyptAccording to local English daily The Egyptian Gazette, Mr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Saturday that the ancient dam was found a few meters away from the Karnak Temple in Luxor, some 500 km south of Cairo. He added that the finding was made by an Egyptian-French archaeological team, which has been working in Luxor since March. The 230-meter long dam was built during the age of the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt to protect the temple from the Nile flood, said Hawass. The Egyptian archaeology supreme stressed the importance of the finding, saying it proved that the ancient Egyptians were good at building dams. The report declared that discover will also revive interest in the ancient Egyptian city, which was believed by some archaeologists that nothing of great importance would be found again. Mr. Hawass continued that the team had also unearthed the relics of a Roman bath built in the first century AD and a clay jar containing 316 coins from different historical periods.
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