A team of Polish archaeologists discover a city within a city at the Marea site in Egypt, pointing to a Byzantine urban project, the latest before the Arab conquest of the eastern Mediterranean
Polish archaeologists working at Egypt’s Marea site have made a new discovery: a self-contained urban complex buried and in ruins. According to the journal, “archaeological investigations in late antique Marea, modern northern Hawwariya, Egypt, have revealed that a significant part of the site was a well-planned urban undertaking on a large scale, founded in the second half of the sixth century AD.
The PCMA team believes that the urban complex was built by Christian pilgrims travelling across Egypt. According to the, “the small town, which covers an area of about 32 acres, would have served as a stop along the route to Abu Mena – a monastery complex some 31 miles southwest of Alexandria.” It would have been frequented by the poor and the rich alike, the team says.
Dr Gwiazda said: "In recent years we have revolutionised our understanding of this ancient city. All thanks to the use of non-invasive and geophysical methods in conjunction with excavations."There was heavy construction going on in Egypt during the Greek and Early Roman periods. However, afterwards there wasn’t much new construction during the Byzantine period because there were already many settlements in existence.
“At the same time, all the modules within each building formed a structural whole that made up a uniform straight frontage 260m in length,” the authors Marius Gwiazda and Tomasz Derda write.quotes Dr Gwiazda as saying.
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