Slovak Egyptologists discovered ancient transport road

Experts assume that the road was not used to drag load; bricks were carried by workers and soldiers on foot.

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Slovak Egyptologists discovered a strange structure on an archaeological mission in the town of Tell el-Retaba. They assume these are remains of a transport road used by Egypt workers and soldiers to distribute construction materials.

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The structure consists of earthenware cement-like material with a width of just under two metres and thickness of about 20 centimetres.

“It stretched along the inner side of the fortification with a distance of about two metres,” said Jozef Hudec of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, as quoted by the TASR newswire.

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Carried on foot

The material is reinforced with a surface of irregular, greenish unfired bricks on the inner side, he added.

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