Archaeologists have discovered a massive, magnificent tunnel that is being dubbed a "geometric miracle" beneath a temple in the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, which is now a ruin on the coast of Egypt.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities took to social media to share this news. They informed that the structure was found 13 meters (43 feet) below the surface and was discovered by Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and colleagues during ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple. A remarkable 1,305 meters (4,281 feet) of sandstone had been hacked through to create the 2-meter-tall tunnel.
"Preliminary studies suggest that the architectural design of the discovered tunnel is very similar to that of Greece's Jubilinos Tunnel, but longer, describing it as an geometric miracle," the ministry said in a statement. However, the Taposiris Magna temple's archaeology is complicated since some of it is submerged beneath the Mediterranean Sea and has seen multiple earthquakes over the years.
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The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities took to social media to share this news. They informed that the structure was found 13 meters (43 feet) below the surface and was discovered by Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and colleagues during ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple. A remarkable 1,305 meters (4,281 feet) of sandstone had been hacked through to create the 2-meter-tall tunnel.
"Preliminary studies suggest that the architectural design of the discovered tunnel is very similar to that of Greece's Jubilinos Tunnel, but longer, describing it as an geometric miracle," the ministry said in a statement. However, the Taposiris Magna temple's archaeology is complicated since some of it is submerged beneath the Mediterranean Sea and has seen multiple earthquakes over the years.
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The tunnel is about 1,305 metres long, and about 2 metres high.
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