Roman finds unearthed near Kafr AL Dawar

The first item to be found was a rectangle shaped building which turned to be part of a winery built with red brick and roman cement covered with an alabaster layer.

More excavations led to a cistern made of red brick, its floor tiled with blocks of white limestone to prevent the leakage of water.

Small items as earthenware and hands of pots of different sizes which bore roman seals were also unearthed the, find on the whole, according to senior inspector of Beheira antiquities Naema Ibrahim, indicated the existence of a civil society in the past.

Apparently, she said, dwellers of the area practiced some small industries as wine making a matter further indicated by the closeness of the site to major centres as Alexandria.