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- July 3, 2011
- AFP
- Cairo / DC.
- A handout picture released from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities shows a 2,700-year-old, stone gate belonging to Nubian King Shabaka, unearthed by Egyptian and French archaeologists while digging near Luxor's Karnak temple, the ministry of antiquities said - AFP.
Egyptian and French archaeologists have unearthed a 2,700-year-old stone gate belonging to Nubian King Shabaka while digging near Luxor's Karnak temple, the ministry of antiquities said on Sunday.
The gate, which was found to be "in good condition," once led to the room holding the king's treasures, the ministry said.
"It is the first time an item of the 25th dynasty has been found in such good condition, and wasn't ruined by the 26th dynasty," Mansur Boraik, the Egyptian head of the Franco-Egyptian Research Centre of the Temples of Karnak, told AFP.
The large stone door features colourful engravings that depict King Shabaka offering the goddess of truth, Maat, to the god Amun Raa, the chief deity.
"The Egyptian-French mission succeeded in making important discoveries from the 18th to the 25th dynasties," minister of state for antiquities Zahi Hawass said in a statement.
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