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a-really-big-muffin t1_jchalom wrote

Interesting, but I guess I'm not sure I'd call this a "huge" discovery? The stones are from a temple that dates to roughly the same time as the Nubians reigning as pharaohs, and if I'd just taken over a country and wanted to prove that I was totally legit, building a temple in my kingdom is an easy way to do it. Unless I misinterpreted the article and the huge part wasn't the existence of the temple, it was the age of it.

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Mister_Red_Bird t1_jchwyvz wrote

As the article says "no evidence of such early construction activity on the site has been identified so far."

This important because "“This would push back the known history of this city by over 1000 years,” said Dr. Wieczorek."

That seems pretty significant to me.

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