Ancient crypt discovered

Tucked away in Ans directorate of Dhamar governorate, a local stumbled across an ancient crypt within a known archaeological area, while digging a well for drinking water. According to preliminary examinations, the crypt extends anywhere between 150 and 180 meters in length and reaches over 9 meters in height.
 
Police in Dhamar governorate confirmed that the name of the local who stumbled across this magnificent find is Anwar Abdu-Rabbuh al-Kooli. Upon finding the crypt buried in the ground, al-Kooli reported the site to the local authorities. The police then secured the site to prevent any further tampering or access to the culturally significant area.
 
“The construction methods and style of the crypt indicate that it is very old, perhaps between 2100 or 2200 years old, from the Himyarite Period. This would mean it predates the arrival of Islam within Yemen,” speculated Ali Daif Allah al-Sanabani, the Director of the General Authority for Antiquities in Dhamar governorate. “This is just a guess, as I had mentioned before, as we have not yet had an opportunity to apply the scientific rigors to the site in order to extract an exact date.”
 
“This is not the first such tomb we have discovered. We are capable of doing a preliminary evaluation of its age because we have studied many similar tombs of virtually the same form and construction,” added Ali. “It is carved out of the mountain; its ceiling are from the mountain, but part of the ceiling is handmade.”
 
In unrelated news from the same directorate, police in Dawran reported the death of a young 25-year-old prospector. The young man was killed while prospecting for onyx in the Ghader Mountains when a landslide buried the area he was working on.

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