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A fort where soldiers kept a horse
Top image: Excavated military items, stelae and carved amulets excavated a Tell el-Abqain New Kingdom fortress, Egypt. Source: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, via Smithsonian Magazine

A fort where soldiers kept a horse

Tell el-Abqain, Egypt. New Kingdom. First cities. Known. Free

Known. A New Kingdom fort held streets, grain stores, ovens, and the burial of a young horse.

The fort is at Tell el-Abqain, in Beheira, Egypt. The page places it in the New Kingdom, and stones there name Ramesses II and Merneptah. A main street is nearly four metres wide. Rooms held grain silos, kilns, and pots with burnt wheat. A complete young horse was buried with its head carefully placed. Stone pieces nearby may come from a chariot harness. Scarabs, charms, and tools were found too.

The page says the horse may have been buried as a ceremony, but that is not certain.

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