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2,000-year-old coins found in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists have found a treasure of 383 bronze coins from the reign of Pharaoh Potlemaeus III. According to the Ministry of Culture of the country, the antique money was discovered the day before in the oasis of El Fayum (about 100 kilometers from Cairo). According to archaeologists, all the coins are well preserved. On one side of each of them is depicted the Greek-Egyptian god Amun-Zeus, and on the other eagle and Greek inscriptions. The total weight of the coins found exceeds 12 kilograms. In addition to them, archaeologists have found rings with corals and three necklaces from the shell of ostrich eggs, which belong to the IV millennium BC

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