AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION EXCAVATING AT TELL EL-FARMA IN THE NORTHERN SINAI HAVE UNCOVERED A TEMPLE DEDICATED TO ZEUS.
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion who ruled from his seat in Mount Olympus. Zeus is often depicted as an older man with a beard and is represented by symbols such as the lightning bolt and the eagle.
Archaeologists were conducting excavations at Tell el-Farma, known by its ancient name of Pelusium which dates back to the late Pharaonic period. The site remained occupied from Greco-Roman times through to the Byzantine and early Islamic periods.
Pelusium was first excavated during the early 1900’s by French Egyptologists, Jean Clédat, who found evidence of a Zeus-Kasios temple (Zeus-Kasios is a conflation of Zeus and Mount Kasios in Syria) in the vicinity from fragments of ancient Greek inscriptions.
