Egypt unearths one of its oldest Nile Delta villages

Cairo : One of the oldest villages in the Nile Delta has been discovered after archaeologists unearthed artefacts dating to the fifth millenium BC, Egypt’s antiquities ministry has said. Remains of the village were uncovered by a French-Egyptian team at Tel Samara, in northeastern Egypt, the ministry said Sunday.

Similar structures dating to the period between 4,200 BC and 2,900 BC “have never been found in that region,” said Ayman Ashmawy, the ministry’s antiquities chief. The only similar discovery has been the village of Sais, in the Gharbia governorate north of Cairo, Ashmawi added.