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\n\tResearchers working at Tel Abu Saify, an archaeological site in Qantara East, near the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt, have uncovered new evidence linking the site to a lost city known as \u201cMasen.\u201d Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the finds on August 15, and the news was first reported in Ahram<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tMohamed Abdel Badie, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the discoveries \u201cprovide further evidence of the site\u2019s changing functions and its strategic importance.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe most noteworthy find, according to Hisham Hussein, who oversaw the archaeological mission, is a large sandstone lintel that is broken into two pieces and inscribed on three sides with references to King Ramses II, a 13th-century BCE pharaoh. One of the texts describes restoration work having been done to a statue of Horus, an ancient Egyptian deity, known as \u201cLord of Masen.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tHisham El-Leithy, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram that further excavation and research is needed in order to definitively confirm the connection.<\/p>\n \n\tTel Abu Saify was first excavated decades ago, and includes ancient military structures, dockyards, mud brick enclosures, and a temple. In addition to the inscribed lintel, the recent archaeological mission also uncovered two roads paved with stones, additional rooms belonging to the site\u2019s temple, and fragments of basalt and jasper statues. Last year\u2019s Tel Abu Saify\u2019s discoveries included housing units, kilns, a defensive trench and a wide, limestone-paved road once lined with trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/tel-abu-saify-excavations-masen-revelation-ancient-egypt-1234795111\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773339230_1471767171651491_5127549593154917757_n.jpg?w=1024″] Researchers working at Tel Abu Saify, an archaeological site in Qantara East, near the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt, have uncovered new evidence linking the site to a lost city known as \u201cMasen.\u201d Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the finds on August 15, and the news was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2100482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}