Many archaeologists have found the most significant ancient city ever discovered in Egypt, dating back 3,000 years.
The city, named “The Rise of Aten,” was discovered under the sand on the western bank of Luxor, lead archaeologist Zahi Hawass said in a statement.
According to the statement, it dates to the reign of King Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt between 1391 and 1353 BCE.
“It was the largest administrative and industrial settlement in the era of the Egyptian empire,” Hawass said.
Archaeologists found the “city’s streets flanked by houses,” with intact walls up to 10 feet high and “rooms filled with tools of daily life … left by the ancient residents as if it were yesterday,” such as rings, colored pottery vessels, casting molds to make amulets, pots used to carry meat, and tools for spinning, weaving, and metal and glass-making.
The team also found a large bakery, “complete with ovens and storage pottery,” whose size suggests it was used to cater to a “huge number of workers and employees.”
Other discoveries include the skeleton of a person buried with arms stretched out to the side and rope wrapped around the knees.
“The location and position of this skeleton are rather odd, and more investigations are in progress,” which describes it as a “remarkable burial.”
“The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun,” Betsy Bryan, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University, said in the statement.
