Archaeologists Discover 4,300-Foot-Long Tunnel Under Ancient Egyptian Temple

[Disir]

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities shared the find in a statement last week and described the tunnel as a “geometric miracle.”
Part of the tunnel is submerged underwater, which could be the result of several earthquakes that struck the region between 320 and 1303 C.E. Archaeologists suspect that those natural disasters caused the temple to collapse.

The tunnel is “an exact replica of Eupalinos Tunnel in Greece, which is considered as one of the most important engineering achievements of antiquity,” Martinez tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus. The Tunnel of Eupalinos, located on the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea, was an aqueduct that carried water for more than 1,000 years.

Archaeologists Discover 4,300-Foot-Long Tunnel Under Ancient Egyptian Temple

Researchers have been digging near the Taposiris Magna Temple in hopes of finding Cleopatra’s long-lost tomb

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This is a very cool find. They found a lot of other cool stuff but this part is pretty fascinating.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities shared the find in a statement last week and described the tunnel as a “geometric miracle.”
Part of the tunnel is submerged underwater, which could be the result of several earthquakes that struck the region between 320 and 1303 C.E. Archaeologists suspect that those natural disasters caused the temple to collapse.

The tunnel is “an exact replica of Eupalinos Tunnel in Greece, which is considered as one of the most important engineering achievements of antiquity,” Martinez tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus. The Tunnel of Eupalinos, located on the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea, was an aqueduct that carried water for more than 1,000 years.

Archaeologists Discover 4,300-Foot-Long Tunnel Under Ancient Egyptian Temple

Researchers have been digging near the Taposiris Magna Temple in hopes of finding Cleopatra’s long-lost tomb

www.smithsonianmag.com

This is a very cool find. They found a lot of other cool stuff but this part is pretty fascinating.

...and to think they only had deer antlers as a carving tool!

 

[Pellinore]

It's amazing that they could dig that tunnel, through what looks like solid rock, with the tech of 2,000 years ago. And to think, they built the pyramids more than 2,000 years before that.

It's amazingly clean, for being so old. They must have polished it up for the photo shoot.