**Breaking News** 7,300-year-old ‘city’ discovered in Egypt

Posted On: Nov 24th, 2016 at 01:06

**Breaking News**
Egypt
An ancient ‘city’ has been found at Abydos in Egypt, near the Nile River.
Dating to 5316 BC (that seems strangely accurate), the ‘city’ was a residential area for officials and tomb builders who were responsible for the royal tombs of the era. Apparently.
The area was discovered 400 metres south of King Seti I temple in Abydos, and that kind of accurate measuring is why I’ve put apostrophes around the word ‘city’ – it clearly isn’t a city, even by the standards of 7,000 years ago. It was, however, a part of the existing ancient city of Abydos.
These sensationalistic headlines are extremely frustrating, especially when they come from archaeologists who should know better, and even more so when they come from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
But that’s not all. According to the report:
“Remains of huts and daily life tools were found in the site, including the remains of pottery and stone tools, which indicates that the residential city supplied the labour force engaged in the construction of royal tombs with food and drink, according to Afify.”
How on earth do you come to a conclusion like that? There is no evidence they supplied the labour force with food and drink; the only evidence that exists is that they found “pottery and stone tools”. It’s amazing the conclusions people come to.
Still, this is a great discovery and I hope there will be more to come.

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/ancient-residential-city-cemetery-discovered-abydos