Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt, not far from the Mediterranean coast. The fort is remarkably well preserved, and even has the remnants of ovens and a hunk of fossilized dough that the fortress' soldiers never got a chance to eat.
Artifacts from the roughly 2-acre (0.8 hectares) fortress suggest that it may have been built during the reign of Thutmose I (circa 1504 to 1492 B.C.), the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a translated statement. Thutmose I was a pharaoh who expanded Egypt's empire into modern-day Syria, which helps explain the fortress' location.
