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Tell el-Abqain Excavations Reveal Bound Libyan Captive Stele
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- The Antiquities Ministry announced Tell el-Abqain excavations uncovered soldiers’ homes and a horse burial.
- Archaeologists recorded a four-meter east-west road crossing a north-south street.
- A burial of a young male horse, likely for chariot use, lay beside harness parts.
- Khaled Abdel-Ghany Farahat said the site yielded the first bound Libyan captive stele.
- Scarabs naming Ramesses II, Seti I and deities, plus fish, lotus, cobra and baboon amulets, were recovered.