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One of the most cosmopolitan outposts of the Roman Empire during the 1st to 4th centuries A.D. was Egypt’s Faiyum region, about 60 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. A fertile farming and business ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » Commerce: Catacomb-style building re-emerges from the sand to reveal ancient Egyptian coffins
Archaeologists in Faiyum excavated a catacomb-style funeral building with several coffins from ancient Egyptian and Greek eras, photos show. Photo from Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » Commerce: The ancient whale from my Egyptian home town
If you pick up any book about the palaeontology of whales, there’s a strong chance that you’ll see ‘Faiyum Depression’ somewhere in there. Faiyum, Egypt, is a desert now, but it was once teeming with ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » Commerce: Feature: eye-catching Egyptian antiquities of Greco-Roman eras shine again as museum reopens in Faiyum
Amid the ruins of the Ptolemaic town of Karanis in Egypt's Faiyum governorate, a graceful museum that houses hundreds of priceless artifacts illustrating the daily life of the ancient inhabitants of ...