workshops

The Supreme Council of Antiquities had made an exciting discovery at the Tabet Al-Motaweh site west of Alexandria. An extensive Greek pottery workshop and storage area from the Ptolemaic era (305-30 BC) and Byzantine period (395-619 AD) of Alexandria was recently excavated by the team at Tabet Al-Motaweh. A Facebook post by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has disclosed that the archaeological mission also found evidence that the ancient Greek pottery workshop was used for centuries. In the northern part of the facility, a cement-making kiln was found, probably dating to Egypt’s Byzantine era. Under one of the kilns, the burial of a pregnant woman was also found. Moreover, near the pottery workshop the living facilities of the workshop