Archaeologists Seeking Cleopatra's Tomb Uncovered a "Geometric Miracle" Tunnel

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Archaeologists Seeking Cleopatra's Tomb Uncovered a "Geometric Miracle" Tunnel

07 May 2023

Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna on the Egyptian coast, archaeologists discovered a vast, spectacular tunnel in 2022, a tunnel that experts called a "geometric miracle".

During ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple, Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and colleagues uncovered the structure 13 meters (43 feet) below the ground. The 2-meter tall tunnel had been hewn through an incredible 1,305 meters (4,281 feet) of sandstone.

https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeo...miracle-tunnel

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Why is it a "miracle" ?

[gixajo]

Why is it a "miracle" ?

I ask myself the same question.

The semi-gable vault is a simple way to prevent roof collapses where the sandstone is more brittle, I wouldn´t see in this a "geometric miracle". Perhaps the ground does not have the typical unevenness of Roman underground water pipes and is completely smooth for 1,300 meters, that would be quite curious, although a "miracle".

The length itself is not a miracle, I don't know if they were preserved complete, but the Roman pipes for drinking water to cities used to be buried in galleries much longer than that, (only in certain and specific areas were the monumental aqueducts used that we are used to associate with the term "Roman aqueduct".

Where does that tunnel lead? What was connected by it? What function did it have?

We are already accustomed to that type of news headline that seeks to attract the interest of the reader, in topics related to archeology.

[renaissance12]

I ask myself the same question.

The semi-gable vault is a simple way to prevent roof collapses where the sandstone is more brittle, I wouldn´t see in this a "geometric miracle". Perhaps the ground does not have the typical unevenness of Roman underground water pipes and is completely smooth for 1,300 meters, that would be quite curious, although a "miracle".

The length itself is not a miracle, I don't know if they were preserved complete, but the Roman pipes for drinking water to cities used to be buried in galleries much longer than that, (only in certain and specific areas were the monumental aqueducts used that we are used to associate with the term "Roman aqueduct".

Where does that tunnel lead? What was connected by it? What function did it have?

We are already accustomed to that type of news headline that seeks to attract the interest of the reader, in topics related to archeology.

This is a miracle..( The pyramids are big.. very big.. but not a miracle of engineering )