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Archaeologists have unearthed the site of a large city in good condition, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life Photo: Zahi Hawass Center For Egyptology
Archaeologists in Egypt have found what they believe is the famed 3,000-year-old “lost golden city of Luxor”. The ancient site is also being called the “Egyptian Pompeii” because of its remarkable preservation, and has been cited by Egyptologysts as the most significant discovery since the unearthing of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.
Excavations began in September of 2020, when a team of archaeologists were searching for a mortuary temple near the site. Within weeks, they had stumbled upon a vast network of ancient mudbrick walls that the believe were a part of the lost city. Jewellery, pottery, scarab beetle amulets, small statues, ritual items, and bricks bearing the seal of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled between around 1386 and 1353 BC, have all been
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Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old lost city, complete with mud-brick houses, artifacts and tools from pharaonic times.
Noted archeologist Zahi Hawass said an Egyptian mission discovered the mortuary city in the southern province of Luxor. It dates back to what is considered a golden era of ancient Egypt, the period under King Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty.
“Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,” Mr. Hawass said in a statement Thursday. The city, built on the western bank of the Nile River, was once the largest administrative and industrial settlement of the pharaonic empire, he added.
Archeologists unearth ancient lost city in Egypt
A professor of Egyptology says the discovery is the most important archeological find since the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.
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The newly unearthed city is located between the temple of King Rameses III and the colossi of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.
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CAIRO Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old lost city, complete with mud brick houses, artifacts, and tools from pharaonic times.
Noted archeologist Zahi Hawass said an Egyptian mission discovered the mortuary city in the southern province of Luxor. It dates back to what is considered a golden era of ancient Egypt, the period under King Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty.
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