Experts were amazed by the exceptional preservation of the settlement’s structures, including homes, workshops, administrative buildings, temples, and bathhouses, following the excavation completion this week.
The team also uncovered remnants of a mining camp, featuring a fully equipped gold extraction facility. The site included crushing and grinding stations, filtration basins, and sedimentation pools that fed into smelting furnaces used for refining gold from quartz veins.
“The project included archaeological excavations, documentation, and restoration of architectural elements discovered on-site,” Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reveals. “These elements were relocated to a safer area three kilometers north of the original site, outside the path of modern mining operations at Sukari Mine.”