Archaeologists have located a massive, spectacular tunnel this is being dubbed a “geometric miracle” below a temple withinside the historical town of Taposiris Magna, that’s now a damage at the coast of Egypt.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities took to social media to percentage this news. They knowledgeable that the shape changed into located thirteen meters (forty three feet) underneath the floor and changed into located via way of means of Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo withinside the Dominican Republic and co-workers throughout ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple. A tremendous 1,305 meters (4,281 feet) of sandstone have been hacked thru to create the 2-meter-tall tunnel.
“Preliminary research recommend that the architectural layout of the located tunnel may be very just like that of Greece’s Jubilinos Tunnel, however longer, describing it as an geometric miracle,” the ministry stated in a statement. However, the Taposiris Magna temple’s archaeology is complex when you consider that a number of it’s miles submerged below the Mediterranean Sea and has visible a couple of earthquakes over the years.
Dr Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Archeology, delivered that in the excavations and archaeological survey of the tunnel, part of the tunnel changed into located submerged beneathneath the Mediterranean water and some of pottery vessels and pottery tractors had been located beneathneath the dust sediment. A square block of limestone and a blind finishing touch changed into additionally located there.
According to Live Science, Ms Martinez, who has been running in Taposiris Magna when you consider that 2004 looking for the misplaced tomb of Cleopatra VII, believes that the tunnel can be a promising lead.
In an interview with National Geographic, Ms Martinez expressed her conviction that the tunnel would possibly manual her to the tomb of Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen, and her lover Mark Antony. The Dominican archaeologist stated that the probability of this going on is simply one percent, however insisted that it’d nevertheless be “the maximum crucial discovery” of the century.