CAIRO: Egypt, an ancient country with a history going back thousands of years, is full of mystery for many people in the world including the Chinese archeological team who went there. When given the task of going to Egypt for the project, the mood of the head of the Chinese archaeological mission, Jia Xiaobing, was complicated. Since this was the first-ever Chinese archaeological mission in Egypt, how to carry out the work was another unknown area for him. In the 1940s and 1950s, the French Oriental Archaeological Institute first carried out systematic archaeological excavations in the Montu Temple area. In the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, archaeologists continued to conduct exploration and surveys in the temple area, but they were all short-term studies of single buildings, lacking a perspective to look at the temple area as a whole.

Source: Manila Times October 22, 2020 16:30 UTC