Egypt discovered a large pottery workshop from the Roman period in the city of Alexandria

According to Mustafa Waziri - General Secretary of the Supreme Council for Antiquities in Egypt, the Roman pottery workshop has many kilns, including two that are chiseled and created right on the stone walls.

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A ceramic artist performing in Egypt.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a large pottery workshop dating back to the Roman period in the city of Alexandria, north of Cairo.

In a statement on April 11, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said that a team of Egyptian archaeologists working at the Tabet Matrouh site, west of Alexandria, had succeeded in excavating a pottery workshop. built in the early Roman period.

According to Mr. Mustafa Waziri - Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, this pottery workshop has many kilns, including two that are chiseled and created right on the stone walls.

Archaeologists also discovered another building located to the south of the two kilns mentioned above. Ayman Ashmawy, head of the Antiquities Authority of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that this could be a storehouse for daily use tools, because there are many cooking utensils inside. eat and tableware.

Also at this archaeological site, experts also discovered a large collection of coins with portraits of Alexander the Great, Zeus and Queen Cleopatra. Most of these coins date from the Ptolemaic dynasty.

There are also fragmentary pieces of terracotta statues of gods and women, as well as the remains of fishing hooks or the anchor of a boat.