Update on the 7000-year-old city in Faiyum

From National Geographic:
Archaeologists working at the site of a 7,000-year-old village in Egypt’s Faiyum depression excavate clay floors and hearths.
The site is the earliest farm settlement yet found in Egypt, providing a major breakthrough in understanding the enigmatic people of the late Stone Age who lived long before the appearance of the Egyptian pharaohs, experts […]

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Ruins of 7000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis

“A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt’s Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
“An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those […]

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