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The Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny has declared that the Egyptian- French mission discovered nine depositories, and three narrow passages, surrounded by a rectangular building containing one chamber dating back to the middle ages (2016-1665 BC), in the north east of Cairo.
The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawaas, said that the mission has started to search and drill for monuments in this area since 1999. The mission found the remains of a city most likely to be an old administrative centre dating back to the middle age state. The excavation works in these depositories revealed a large group of clay pots on which the names of the fourth dynasty (2643-2513) and the fifth dynasty (2513-2374) were engraved.
Additionally, there are some wood boards related to the ships used by Ancient Egyptians in their voyages through the gulf of Suez to Sinai, where the mines of copper and turquoise existed.
George Casel, chief of the French team, confirmed that the initial studies emphasized that these depositories were divided into two parts; one part was assigned for the purpose of storing ships and their cords, and the other was about 600 SM composed of chambers and passages.
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