"Lost Golden City" Found in Egypt Reveals Lives of Ancient Pharaohs

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An ancient Egyptian city has recently been discovered under the sands near Luxor, marking another significant archaeological finding:

The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.

Famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of the "lost golden city" near Luxor on Thursday.

He said the find was the largest ancient city, known as Aten, ever uncovered in Egypt.

It was unearthed within weeks of the excavation starting in September 2020.

The city dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, who ruled from 1391 to 1353 BC.

The city continued to be used by pharaohs Ay and Tutankhamun, whose nearly intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

"The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun," Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, said.

She said the city would "give us a rare glimpse into the life of the ancient Egyptians" at the time when the empire was at its wealthiest.

For a country whose history continues to show itself to be so eventful and full of civilization, one can only hope it achieves similar cultural greatness in our era someday.

 

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An ancient Egyptian city has recently been discovered under the sands near Luxor, marking another significant archaeological finding:



For a country whose history continues to show itself to be so eventful and full of civilization, one can only hope it achieves similar cultural greatness in our era someday.

Fascinating! Another, though somewhat less extreme version of this is the ancient city of Antioch (then in Syria but now Turkey) which I am a bit obsessed with of late. Not as old this city in Egypt and in fact was around still to be attacked in the first crusade. But 'already' it is mostly buried though in this case because of the flooding of the Orontes river that ran right next to city walls. Hopefully there will be more digs there one day.

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I'm looking forward to the TV shows exploring this magnificent find.

 

[Samael_Khan]

An ancient Egyptian city has recently been discovered under the sands near Luxor, marking another significant archaeological finding:



For a country whose history continues to show itself to be so eventful and full of civilization, one can only hope it achieves similar cultural greatness in our era someday.

I would be interested to see what this city called Aten (the sun) tells us about Tutankhamuns father Akhenaten and his monotheistic or henotheistic religion of the Aten.