An
over 4,400-year-old pottery workshop has been discovered near Kom Ombo Temple
in Aswan, Upper Egypt as maintenance work was being carried out to reduce the
level of underground water beneath the temple. Written By/ Nevine El-Arwef.
The
workshop, the oldest ancient Egyptian workshop ever discovered, dating back to
the Fourth Dynasty (2,613 - 2,494 BC), was found in the area located between
the Crocodile Museum and the Nile's shore.
The
structure has semi-circular holes of different sizes and contains a collection
of cylindrical stone blocks used to melt and mix clay.
A
pottery manufacturing wheel and its limestone turntable were also discovered.
"The
discovery is an important and rare one," Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general
of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram Online, adding that this is
the oldest workshop ever found in the country.
Waziri
explains that the discovery gives insight into the daily lives of ancient
Egyptians as well as the development of pottery and industry throughout Egypt's
different dynastic periods.
Waziri
asserted that this is the first pottery manufacturing wheel to be found from the
ancient Egyptian era, adding that several reliefs and paintings showing the
development of pottery in ancient Egypt had been previously discovered.
Egyptologist
Morslav Verner had discovered just the head of a pottery manufacturing wheel
made of burned clay in a pottery workshop found at Queen Khentkawes II's temple
in Abusir necropolis.
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