Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a vast tunnel beneath a temple at the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria. The 4,281-foot-long (1,305 meters) tunnel, which brought water to thousands of people in its heyday, was discovered by an Egyptian-Dominican Republic archaeological team, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.
埃及的考古学家在亚历山大西部的古城Taposiris Magna的一座寺庙下面发现了一条巨大的隧道。埃及-多米尼加共和国考古队发现了这条4,281英尺长的隧道,在全盛时期为成千上万的人带来了水,埃及旅游和古物部在一份声明中说。
Ancient Egyptian builders constructed the 6.6-foot-high (2 m) tunnel at a depth of about 65 feet (20 m) beneath the ground, Kathleen Martínez, a Dominican archaeologist and director of the team that discovered the tunnel, told Live Science in an email. “It is an exact replica(复制品) of Eupalinos Tunnel in Greece, which is considered as one of the most important engineering achievements of antiquity(古迹),” Martinez said. The Eupalinos tunnel, in Samos, a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, also carried water.
古埃及建造者在地下约65英尺英尺的深度建造了6.6英尺高的隧道,多米尼加考古学家兼发现该隧道的团队负责人凯瑟琳·马丁内斯,在一封电子邮件中告诉Live Science。马丁内斯说: “它是希腊尤帕利诺斯隧道的精确复制品,被认为是古代最重要的工程成就之一。”位于爱琴海东部的希腊岛屿萨摩斯岛的尤帕利诺斯隧道也承载着水。
The archaeology of the Taposiris Magna temple is complex. Parts of it are under water and the temple has been hit by numerous earthquakes over the history of its existence, causing a lot of damage. The tunnel at Taposiris Magna dates to the Ptolemaic period (304 B.C. to 30 B.C.), a time when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of kings descended from one of Alexander the Great’s generals.
塔波西里斯麦格纳神庙的考古学很复杂。它的一部分在水下,在它存在的历史中,这座寺庙被无数次地震袭击,造成了很大的破坏。塔波西里斯麦格纳的隧道可以追溯到托勒密时期,当时埃及由亚历山大大帝的一位将军的国王王朝统治。
Finds within the tunnel included two alabaster(雪花石膏) heads: one of which likely depicts(描绘) a king, and the other represents another high-ranking person, Martinez said. Their exact identities are indecisive. Coins and the remains of statues of Egyptian deities(神) were also found in the tunnel, according to Martinez.
马丁内斯说,隧道内的发现包括两个雪花石膏头: 其中一个可能描绘了一个国王,另一个代表了另一个高级官员。他们的确切身份是优柔寡断的。据马丁内斯说,在隧道里也发现了硬币和埃及神像的残骸。
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