Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold and pulverize and filter quartz.

Archaeologists identified the partial figures as Bastet, an Egyptian deity who ... included over 620 pottery pieces with a mix of hieroglyphics, Greek and demotic writings on them, bronze coins ...

Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Sukari Mountain, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Feb. 25 Facebook post. The ...

According to Khaled, numerous artifacts were also discovered including 628 ostraca with writings in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek ... some of which are incomplete, of Bastet and Harpocrates, and ...

Some of the pieces that give a better understanding of the social component of the mine include 628 pieces of broken pottery—many inscribed with hieroglyphic ... such as Bastet and Harpocrates ...

The ostraca were written in hieroglyphic scripts ... some incomplete, of Bastet and Harpocrates, as well as five offering tables from the Ptolemaic era." "Additionally, a variety of pottery ...

The excavation yielded 628 ostraca inscribed with hieroglyphic, demotic ... of stone statuettes representing deities such as Bastet and Harpocrates. Furthermore, archaeologists found five ...