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Dakhla Archaeological Discovery

October 3 , 2026 13 hrs 0 min 26 0

Archaeologists discovered a 1,700-year-old pyramid-shaped tomb at Bir Al-Shaghala in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, dating to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
The mud-brick tomb was built for a married couple and combines Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultural traditions.
Its Egyptian-style entrance has 14 steps, hieroglyphic funerary spells, a winged sun disk and two cobras.
A 19-line funerary poem in ancient Greek was found on a stone stele inside the tomb.
Archaeologists also found pottery, a sandstone offering table, a purification basin and a bronze coin showing Roman Emperor Constantine.
Bir Al-Shaghala was part of the necropolis of Mothis, the ancient capital of the Dakhla Oasis during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.