Archaeologists have found a massive, outstanding tunnel this is being dubbed a “geometric miracle” underneath a temple withinside the historical metropolis of Taposiris Magna, that’s now a spoil at the coast of Egypt. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities took to social media to percentage this news. They knowledgeable that the shape became observed thirteen meters (forty three feet) underneath the floor and became found with the aid of using Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo withinside the Dominican Republic and associates all through ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple. A great 1,305 meters (4,281 feet) of sandstone have been hacked via to create the 2-meter-tall tunnel. “Preliminary research advocate that the architectural layout of the found tunnel may be very much like that of Greece’s Jubilinos Tunnel, however longer, describing it as an geometric miracle,” the ministry stated in a statement. However, the Taposiris Magna temple’s archaeology is complex due to the fact that a number of it’s miles submerged underneath the Mediterranean Sea and has visible a couple of earthquakes over the years.
Dr Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Archeology, brought that in the excavations and archaeological survey of the tunnel, part of the tunnel became located submerged below the Mediterranean water and some of pottery vessels and pottery tractors had been observed below the dust sediment. A square block of limestone and a blind crowning glory became additionally observed there. According to Live Science, Ms Martinez, who has been operating in Taposiris Magna on the grounds that 2004 looking for the misplaced tomb of Cleopatra VII, believes that the tunnel might be a promising lead. In an interview with National Geographic, Ms Martinez expressed her conviction that the tunnel would possibly manual her to the tomb of Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen, and her lover Mark Antony. The Dominican archaeologist recounted that the chance of this occurring is simply one percent, however insisted that it’d nonetheless be “the maximum essential discovery” of the century.