By Prensa Latina,
El Cairo : A fortress, a temple and pieces with more than 3,000 years of antiquity were discovered in the peninsula of Sinai, north El Cairo.
All of them date from the Pharaonic New Empire (1569-1081, B.C) and were found in the region of Tel Hebuat, 18 miles east Canal de Suez, the local head of the System of Antiques Mohamed Abdel Maqsud communicated.
The archaeologists made the discovery when excavating in the rests of the fortresses raised in the route of Horus, used by the soldiers of the Empire to defend the territory of invasions.
According to the first works, those fortifications served as defense to the Egyptian Army, from the new empire to the Greco-roman dynasty of the Ptolomeos (305-31 BC).
Archaeologists found in Tel Hebuat the rests of a temple of the New Empire, the first of an historical period that located north of the Sinai and constructed on the ruins of a fortress erected during the 18th dynasty.
They extracted pieces with inscriptions in that region that belonged to the Pharaohs Rameses II and Siti I, besides a block with carved letters that belonged to Thutmose II, the first tracks of that monarch discovered in the route of Horus.
Ruins of silos used by the Pharaonic army to keep their provisions safe were also found.