“The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun,” Betsy Bryan, professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement by the team announcing the find. Though much of the lost industrial royal metropolis remains to be uncovered, digging has already revealed a distinctive wavy zig-zag wall encircling the city, which contains near-complete structures including a bakery, kitchen, storage rooms and a cemetery. The city, known as the “The Rise of Aten”, was built 3,400 years ago during the reign of one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs, Amenhotep III.Īrchaeologists rediscovered the site within the ancient Egyptian capital Thebes last September, while searching for a mortuary temple of King Tut, whose tomb was discovered in Luxor's Valley of the Kings in 1922.īut the team soon uncovered much more extensive mud-brick structures, according to the Egyptian archaeologist overseeing the dig, Zahi Hawass.
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of an ancient royal city that lay buried under sand for centuries near Luxor in Upper Egypt, hailing it as one of the most significant archaeological finds for Egyptologists since Tutankhamun's tomb nearly a century ago.
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