Egypt recently announced that an ancient city dating to about 3,500 years ago has been discovered by radar. Scholars estimate that this city would have existed at the same time that the Jewish people were enslaved there. Radar imaging has been used to find the underground outlines of this city, which is located in the now densely-populated Nile Delta area.
It is believed that this city is Avaris, which was the summer capital of the Hyskos, foreign occupiers of Egypt who ruled is for about a century. The radar images reveal outlines of streets and houses beneath what is now green farm fields and modern towns.
"The aim of the geophysical survey,” said Austrian archaeological team head Irene Mueller, “was to identify the size of the ancient city… The mission also identified one of the Nile river tributaries that passed through the city, as well as two islands.”
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