The Italian antiquities mission working in Kom Madi area in Fayoum governorate, south of Cairo, discovered a bowling-like hall dating back to the Ptolemaic age.

The hall was discovered during excavations at a building inside an ancient residential area in Kom Madi.

Kom Madi is a temple area and one of the important ancient sites still in good shape despite having a long history extending back to the 12th Pharaonic Dynasty.

l'Università di Pisa Egittologia

First bowling-like hall in ancient Egypt, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 27, 2007.

cf. Missione italiana in Egitto scopre la più vecchia sala da bowling mai costruita , News Italia Press, Italy, Vol. XIV, No. 97, May 28, 2007.

Previously:

What's old is new: Recent finds in Fayoum and Luxor, May 05, 2006.

New pharaonic monuments uncovered in Fayoum, April 10, 2006.