Archaeologists Find Ancient City of 3,000 Year Old Pharaohs in Egypt

KOMPAS.com – In order to archaeologist on Saturday (10/4/2021) showcased their findings in the form of a city ancient largest ever found on Egypt.

The city is known to have originated in the golden age pharaoh and is about 3,000 years ago.

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The “lost golden city of Luxor” has been uncovered in Egypt, revealing an industrial metropolis that’s over 3,400 years old pic.twitter.com/LGHda7SGqi

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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor that they say is the “largest” ever found in Egypt. They say it dates back to a golden age of the pharaohs 3,000 years ago. https://t.co/fsAyfEoVA4 pic.twitter.com/R6IdXBhy1B

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A 3,400-year-old city was uncovered in Egypt’s Luxor, a find which archaeologists say is the most significant since the discovery of the Tutankhamun’s tomb https://t.co/RsYQOjZkbj pic.twitter.com/DfOuSYQwaK

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Ancient city located near Luxor, workers carefully carried ancient objects and displayed the remains of human and animal bones.

“This is a great lost city. It has to do with the gods Aton and Amenhotep III,” said the Egyptologist Ancient Hawass enthusiastically, quoted from AFP, Saturday (10/4/2021).

3 Districts

Archaeologist also found three main districts consisting of one administrative district, the district where workers live, and another for industry.

The space includes a workshop for drying meat, making clothes and sandals, and making amulets and small statues.

The head of the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri said the site was not limited to buildings.

“We can see economic activity, workshops and ovens,” he said.

Hawass announced earlier this week the discovery of the “lost city of gold”, while the archaeological team said it was “ancient city largest “ever found in Egypt.

“We only found one part of the city. The city extends to the west and north,” said Hawass.

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Jewelry

The team began excavations last September between the temples of Ramesses III and Amenhotep III near Luxor, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of Cairo.

Amenhotep III inherited an empire stretching from the Euphrates River in modern Iraq, Syria to Sudan and died around 1354 BC.

He ruled for nearly four decades, a government known for the opulence and splendor of its monuments, including the Colossi of Memnon, which are two large stone statues near Luxor that represent himself and his wife.

Betsy Bryan, professor of Egyptian art and archeology at John Hopkins University, said the discovery was the second most important archaeological discovery since Tutankhamun’s tomb nearly a century ago.

Archaeologists have found jewelry items, colored pottery vessels, scarab beetle amulets, and mud bricks with the seal of Amenhotep III.

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Fantastic discovery

The head of the Spanish archaeological mission Jose Galan called the site a fantastic find.

“We are used to discoveries related to temples and tombs so we know about religious life and burial customs. But we don’t know much about settlements,” he said.

The team said they were optimistic that further important findings would come to light.

After years of political instability following the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, Egypt is working to attract visitors, particularly by promoting its ancient heritage.

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Last week, the mummified remains of 18 ancient kings and four queens were transported across Cairo from the Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

The process of moving was through a procession known as the “Golden Parade Pharaoh“and witnessed by millions of people.

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