Pharaonic Fort Unearthed In Egypt
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www.dailystar.com Egypt announced the discovery of the largest-ever military city from the pharaonic period on the edge of the Sinai desert, part of a series of forts that stretched to the Gaza border. "The three forts are part of a string of 11 castles that made up the Horus military road that went from Suez all the way to the city of Rafah on the Egyptian-Palestinian border and dates to the 18th and 19th dynasties (1560-1081 BC)," antiquities chief Zahi Hawwas said in a statement.Teams have been digging in the area for the past decade, but the Egyptian discovery of the massive Fort Tharo and the discovery of two other fortresses by French and American teams confirmed the existence of the Horus fortifications described in ancient texts.Fort Tharo, the military headquarters for the eastern defense of Egypt, had 13-meter thick mud brick walls running 500 meters by 250 meters and punctuated by 24 huge towers, said a statement from the Supreme Council of Antiquities.The fortress was surrounded by a water-filled moat that could only be crossed by using a removable wooden bridge, with the fort's administrative buildings, temples, storehouses and market places found nearby.The entire complex, which was connected by a bridge over the crocodile-infested waters of a now silted up branch of the Nile, was charged with defending Pharaoh Ramses II's northern capital city of Per-Ramesse.Ramses II of the 19th Dynasty spent 16 years of his long reign battling the rival Hittites in the Levant and mounted numerous expeditions across the desert into neighboring lands.The other fortresses discovered appear to be outer lines of defense for the Tharo complex.The American expedition found a 100-square-meter fort known as the Lion's Lair near Tharo in Tel al-Burj, also surrounded by a large moat.
Another 15 kilometers to the east the French expedition found a smaller fortress built by Ramses' father Seti I in Tel Heir.
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