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Excavation ongoing hydraulic works in Egypt · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing hydraulic works in Egypt

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Shunet el-Zebib, Abydos

Early Dynastic 2nd Dynasty ~2750 BCE · Early Egyptian Dynastic

2750 BCE 137 m mudbrick enclosure - Egypt's oldest monumental walls prototyping pyramid complex.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Aswan Old Dam South Spillway

British-Egyptian Modern with Pharaonic quarry context · British-Egyptian engineers (Willcocks, Benetti) on Pharaonic Nile

South spillway 350 m south of Aswan Low Dam with 58 buttress sluices on granite outcrop.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Valley of the Golden Mummies — Bahariya Oasis

Greco-Roman to Coptic (332 BCE–641 CE) · Greco-Roman Egyptian (Bahariya Oasite) / Coptic

Valley of the Golden Mummies is the 10 km Greco-Roman necropolis (332 BCE–641 CE) at Bahariya Oasis 380 km SW Cairo with 250 excavated tombs (10,000 est.