Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty announced that a US-Egyptian joint mission has discovered three antique panels dating back to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt at Wadi al-Hudi, 35 km southwest of Aswan.
The panels bear inscriptions, some of which are badly eroded due to erosion, according to Damaty.
Damaty said the ministry plans to form a research team that would use Reflectance Transformation Imaging to be able to read the faded inscriptions.
The inscriptions most likely talk about a settlement that was established in the Wadi al-Hudi area during the Middle Kingdom, Damaty mentioned.
Head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector Mahmoud Afify stressed the importance of the Wadi al-Hudi area, which includes amethyst quarries used for making jewelry during the Middle Kingdom.
The panels refer to the twenty-eighth year of King Senusret I's reign during the 12th Dynasty, as well as information on the people who were sent to the area to get amethyst during the Middle Kingdom, said Afify.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
