A foreign site shed light on a recent study that revolved around the detection of traces of a water well dating back to ancient Egypt in the Red Sea region and the presence of the well indicated the existence of a coastal city that was abandoned more than 2000 years ago when the freshwater spring dried up. In the dry up of the well, it may have been a large volcanic eruption somewhere that came according to ancient-origin
The well is located in the port of "Berenice", which is an ancient Egyptian sea port located on the western coast of the Red Sea, about 260 km east of Aswan in Upper Egypt and 140 km south of Marsa Alam, according to Professor Marek Wojniak, from the Institute of Mediterranean and Eastern Cultures in Warsaw, Poland. , In his study that the city was founded between 275 and 260 BC.
The researchers said, the severe drought caused the well of the main city to dry up sometime between 220 and 200 BC, the entire settlement was abandoned for centuries, and the Roman Empire revived the city in 30 BC.
Since Berenice was strategically located, it was not an ordinary city and it would have been better to describe it as a military or naval headquarters.
Since 2014, Professor Marek Wojnyak has been excavating this ancient settlement where he discovered the remains of the ancient castle walls and the main gate.
Mon, Mar. 22, 2021
