Seven Egyptians who discovered the remains of a 3,400-year-old temple underneath their home were arrested by the police for illegal excavation work last week.
Two of the men, residents of the Giza district near Cairo, were Palestinians, an aide to the Egyptian interior ministry said, according to the Egyptian newspaper Ahram.
The diggers found huge limestone blocks, engraved with hieroglyphs, dating to the reign of King Tuthmose III of the New Kingdom era in Egyptian history (16th-11th centuries BCE), in the Hod Zeleikha area of Al-Badrasheen district.
3,400-year-old temple unearthed in illegal Egypt dig lands seven in jail - Archaeology Israel News | Haaretz
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