Egypt on Sunday announced the completion of a project to save famed 2,000-year-old catacombs in the costal city of Alexandria from rising waters.The Kom al-Shoqafa location, considered by archaeologists to be the largest Greco-Roman burial site in Egypt, has been threatened by water since its discovery in 1900.The catacombs, which were in use from the first to the fourth century AD, are renowned for funerary architecture blending ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman art.The rising water prompted…
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