2,000 YEAR OLD CITY FOUND.
'" CAIRO, February 20.' Damlmos Pasha claims to, have discovered near Aboukir Bay one of the most ajLi?i.9nt citiesi ;i df..E|jypt, Canopus, wliicli before the foundation of Alexandria was 'the ■ commercial capital of the country and the. most important religious centre in Lower Egypt. Among the finds is ai . .great public bath of the period composed of twenty chambers, of which the largest is about eight yards long and eight yards wide. Bronze coin's '* found bear the effigies of Ptolemy Soter> Ptolemy Energetes,, . and Queen. Berenice, and a, Chinese figure, showing that relations must liave existed in the dim past between Chini aiid the ancient capital of Egypt- -....-.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14288, 3 May 1917, Page 9
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1122,000 YEAR OLD CITY FOUND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14288, 3 May 1917, Page 9
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