Marhaba! I am sure you all enjoyed learning about this new archaeological discovery in beautiful Egypt. This is indeed amazing and will just make you realize that thousands of years people before us inhabited the very same earth, breathed the same air, and obviously engaged in many social practices and traditions that have survived to this very day!! Just imagine for a moment that these archaeologists unveiled ruins that existed 5,600 years ago!

I hope you found the text to be easy to understand and that you answered all questions. Also, I hope you were able to translate the sentence from Arabic to English. As mentioned in earlier posts, important about newspaper articles expose you to one of the most familiar and common types of written Arabic. In this post I provide you with the answers to the questions and the translation of the key sentence.

Answers:

1. نحو 5600 سنة

Around 5,600 years old

2. الكشف جاء نتيجة للأعمال التي تجريها البعثة الآثارية الانجليزية بالتعاون مع وزارة الاثار المصرية.

The discovery came as a result of work that the British archeological delegation is conducting in collaboration with the Egyptian ministry of archeology.

3. واكتشفت المقبرة في منطقة الكوم الأحمر بين الأقصر وأسوان، في موقع مدينة هيراكونبوليس الآثرية.

The tomb was discovered in the al-Kom al-Ahmar (red mound) between al-Aqsar and Aswan in the archeological city of Hieraconpolis.

4. إن القبرالذي حفظ بصورة جيدة، سيقدم معلومات جديدة عن الشعائر التي كانت سائدة في عصر ما قبل الأسرات

The well preserved tomb will provide new information about the dominant customs in the pre-dynasty era.

5. Translation of sentence to English:

And the ministry’s declaration added that the archeologists found an ivory statue for a bearded man, and a mummy who that tomb belongs to who appeared to have died in his late twenties.

Stay tuned for upcoming posts.

Have a nice day!

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