Northern African nation, Egypt, has made an important archaeological discovery.
The country has discovered what is reported to be a 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city.’
According to Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass in a Facebook post, the city was lost to sands.
Egypt is being praised for the discovery which is seen as an important archaeological find since Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Dr. Hawass announced the discovery of the “lost golden city”.
He stated that the city was found near Luxor on Thursday, April 8, 2021.
According to him, the discovery was the largest ancient city which is known as Aten, in Egypt.
He said the city was discovered after weeks of excavation which began in September 2020.
He said the discovered city dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs. The excavations started on the west bank of Luxor near the Valley of the Kings, some 500 km (300 miles) south of the capital Cairo.
Amenhotep III ruled Egypt, a North African nation, from 1391 to 1353 BC. The pharaohs Ay and Tutankhamun reportedly continued to use the city after his reign.
A large number of valuable archaeological finds, such as jewellery, coloured pottery, scarab beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III, were reportedly found in the discovered city, he revealed.
“Within weeks, to the team’s great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions,” says Dr Hawass.
“What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a good condition of preservation, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life.”
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