Oldest wooden statues found in Egypt

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Oldest wooden statues found in Egypt

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Friday, March 24, 2006


CAIRO: Archeologists in Egypt have unearthed two 5,000-year-old wooden statues, complete with gold wrapping paper, believed to be the oldest such artifacts ever found, the team said Wednesday. The statues, which depict two nude men with precious stones around their eyes, were found by a Polish team in the northern Nile Delta region of Daqahliya, said chief archaeologist Krzysztof Cialowicz.

The effigies are believed to date from Egypt's predynastic era (3,700-3,200 BC), before Egypt started to unify under the pharaohs.

Cialowicz said that his team had also found remnants of gold-coated paper that experts said was used to wrap the wooden statues.

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