7,000 Year Old Egyption City Discovered

On November 23rd 2016, the Egyptian Ministries of Antiquities announced that archaeologists there had found the ruins of a 7,000 year old city. The discovery was made 400 meters from the temple of Seti I, during an excavation of parts of Abydos, in Egypt's Sohag province. Researchers say that Abydos was once Egypt's capital city during the fist four dynasties and near the end of the predynastic period.

So far, archaeologists have uncovered huts, remains of pottery, iron tools, and 15 huge graves. Some of the graves were larger than those of the kings of Abydos. It is believed that the size of some of these larger graves indicates that the people who were buried there were very important. They may even have held some high social social standing, during this particular period of Egyptian history, which dates back to 5,316 BCE.