History Mystery: Lost Golden City Unearthed in Egypt

Reuters

A 3,000-year-old city of Egypt is discovered that is lost under the sands is the most significant archaeological breakthrough since the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist, has reported the “lost golden city” near Luxor from pharaonic times. Some artifacts, tools, rings, scarabs, coloured pottery vessels, and mud-brick houses bearing seals of Amenhotep’s cartouche that were unseen for centuries have also been found.

Zahi Hawass reported that Luxor’s southern province’s mortuary city was encountered under an Egyptian mission on Thursday. The town was established more than 3,400 years ago under the Amenhotep III dynasty, the mighty pharaohs, and ruled from 1391 to 1353 BC.

In September, the archeologists’ team began the evacuation and found mud-brick formations in all directions within a few weeks. The site gave a remarkable cast into the ancient Egyptians’ lifestyle when the kingdom was most prosperous. Hawass says that the Egyptian archeologist is overseeing the excavation and expects to find a tomb filled with treasures.

Hawass said that many foreign archeologists team had initiated the mission to solve the history mystery of the lost golden city but failed. The team excavated a massive city with almost perfect walls and rooms packed with utensils of everyday life. Overall, the place is in a good position of preservation.

History Mystery: Lost Golden City

The excavations recline on the West Bank of Luxor near the Medinet Habu, Colossi of Memnon, and the Ramesseum, or mortuary temple of King Ramses II. It is not far from the Valley of the Kings. Hawass added the state of preservation, and the number of items from everyday life brought to mind another famous excavation. The ancient references comprise three of Amenhotep III’s mansions and the empire’s administrative and industrial centre.

Lacovara has worked at the Malqata palace area for more than twenty years, although not involved in the excavation. He has said that it is a kind of historical Egyptian Pompeii, and it signifies the crucial need to uphold this site as an archaeological park.

This is a very remarkable finding,” says Peter Lacovara, director of the US-based Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund, impart by the Press association.

Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, acknowledged the discovery and considered it the most important Egyptian discovery since Tutankhamun’s tomb. He is also a specialist of Amenhotep III’s reign and mentioned in a statement that the site encompasses a vast amount of ovens and furnaces for making glass and faience. Along with the litter of thousands of statues.

By finding the biggest history mystery, Egypt is looking for a way to raise its ancient legacy and culture to flourish its tourism industry, which has been weakening after ages of political turbulence and turmoil stirred up by the corona virus pandemic.