At Buto in the Nile Delta, sacred city of the cobra goddess Wadjet, Egyptian researchers used satellite radar and ground scans to find a large mudbrick complex from the 26th Dynasty (688 to 525 BC) under a mound, reports Live Science. It may have been a tomb, a priests' house or a shrine. Beneath it lay a layer of clean sand that spread the weight and kept groundwater out. A trench revealed shabti figurines, a limestone altar and a baboon figurine linked to the god Thoth.

The find shows how the Saite pharaohs restored old cult sites to strengthen their rule. Religion and state power, built together, layer by layer.

Source: Wafaa Tantawy, Live Science (2026-11-02)
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/buried-for-2-600-years-beneath-nile-mud-a-massive-ancient-egyptian-complex-was-just-found-from-space

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