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Lost Golden City in Luxor most significant Egyptian find since King Tut s tomb
11 Apr, 2021 10:39 PM
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Lost City: The city in Luxor is the most significant Egyptian find for 100 years. Photo / Fadel Dawood, Getty Images
Lost City: The city in Luxor is the most significant Egyptian find for 100 years. Photo / Fadel Dawood, Getty Images
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By: Vanessa Brown
It s been dubbed as the biggest archaeological discovery since King Tut s tomb nearly a century ago.
On Thursday, Egypt announced what has been described as the discovery of the Lost Golden City in the southern province of Luxor.
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The team was reportedly digging for the mortuary temple of Tutankhamun near Luxor when they stumbled on mudbrick structures extending in all directions.
“We began our work searching for the mortuary temple of Tutankhamun because the temples of both Horemheb and Ay were found in this area,” Dr Hawass said.
Inside the city s buildings, some of which are three metres tall, were tools jewellery, scarabs and pottery.
Prominent Egyptologists are already praising the importance of the find, with some likening it to the discovery of Pompeii, another ancient city that contained a large number of intact artefacts.
“The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun, said Dr Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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