More about SIP finds at Edfu

At Tel Edfu a downtown centre has been uncovered, a community located half way between the modern city of Aswan and Luxor. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), says the grain bins the mission found this year are in a large silo courtyard dating back to the 17th Dynasty (1630-1520 BC) and containing at least seven round mud-brick silos measuring 5.5x6.5 metres in diameter, making them the largest example so far discovered within a town centre.