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Egypt unveils Graeco-Roman Senate building in Pelusium 

An Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed on Wednesday a Greco-Roman huge building made of red brick and limestone in the province of North Sinai, the country’s Antiquities Ministry said in a statement.

“The building was most probably used as a headquarters for the Senate Council of Pelusium, one of the North Sinai’s old cities,” said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The initial studies conducted on the architectural planning and the construction of the building indicated that it was used to hold meetings for the citizens’ representatives during the rule of the Ptolemies and Romans for taking important decisions about the public affairs of the city and its citizens. Read more.