Cairo -Egyptian
archaeologists have uncovered a pottery workshop dating back some 4,500 years,
officials said Thursday, a rare discovery providing a glimpse into daily life
from millenia ago.
The find -- which included
a stone pottery wheel -- was made close to the southern city of Aswan during
work around the Temple of Kom Ombo on the banks of the Nile River, the
antiquities ministry said.
The workshop was built
during the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (between 2613 and 2494 BC), a
statement said, the same period in which the famous pyramids of Giza were
constructed.
"It is one of the rare
finds that sheds light on daily life, industrial activities and the development
of art in ancient Egypt," Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt´s
Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in the statement.
Waziri said the discovery
showed "the improvement and adaptation" of tools during the period as
people "responded to the demands of daily life".
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