3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of ancient Egypt discovered; Aten is the largest such city found

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'Lost golden city of Luxor' discovered by archaeologists in Egypt

Egypt says it has uncovered a vast, untouched, 3,000 year-old ‘lost golden city’
Egypt says it has uncovered a vast, untouched, 3,000 year-old ‘lost golden city’
Archeologists hail unearthing near Luxor of ‘largest ancient city,’ call it the most important discovery since tomb of Tutankhamun and a window into the ancient world
By AFPToday, 1:05 am
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CAIRO — Archaeologists hailed Thursday the discovery of “the largest” ancient city found in Egypt, buried under sand for millennia, which experts said was one of the most important finds since unearthing Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of the “lost golden city”, saying the site was uncovered near Luxor, home of the legendary Valley of the Kings.

“The Egyptian mission under Dr. Zahi Hawass found the city that was lost under the sands,” the archeology team said in a statement.

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“The city is 3,000 years old, dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, and continued to be used by Tutankhamun and Ay,” the statement added.

It called the find “the largest” ancient city ever uncovered in Egypt.

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The newly discovered ‘lost city’ near Luxor in Egypt (Courtesy/ Zahi Hawass Center For Egyptology)

Betsy Bryan, Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University, said the find was the “second most important archeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun”, according to the team’s statement.

Items of jewelry such as rings have been unearthed, along with colored pottery vessels, scarab beetle amulets, and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III.

“Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,” said Hawass, a former antiquities minister.

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Skeletal remains found in the newly discovered ‘lost city’ near Luxor in Egypt (Courtesy/ Zahi Hawass Center For Egyptology)

The team began excavations in September 2020, between the temples of Ramses III and Amenhotep III near Luxor, some 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of the capital Cairo.

“Within weeks, to the team’s great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions,” the statement read.

“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.”

Tombs filled with treasures
After seven months of excavations, several neighborhoods have been uncovered, including a bakery complete with ovens and storage pottery, as well as administrative and residential districts.

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Clay pots found in the newly discovered ‘lost city’ near Luxor in Egypt (Courtesy/ Zahi Hawass Center For Egyptology)

Amenhotep III inherited an empire that stretched from the Euphrates to Sudan, archaeologists say, and died around 1354 BC.

He ruled for nearly four decades, a reign known for its opulence and the grandeur of its monuments, including the Colossi of Memnon — two massive stone statues near Luxor that represent him and his wife.

“The archaeological layers have laid untouched for thousands of years, left by the ancient residents as if it were yesterday,” the team’s statement said.

Bryan said the city “will give us a rare glimpse into the life of the Ancient Egyptians at the time where the Empire was at his wealthiest.”

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Archeological finds in the newly discovered ‘lost city’ near Luxor in Egypt (Courtesy/ Zahi Hawass Center For Egyptology)

The team said they were optimistic that further important finds would be revealed, noting they had discovered groups of tombs reached through “stairs carved into the rock”, a similar construction to those found in the Valley of the Kings.


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“The mission expects to uncover untouched tombs filled with treasures,” the statement added.

After years of political instability linked to a popular revolt in 2011, which dealt a severe blow to Egypt’s key tourism sector, the country is seeking to bring back visitors, in particular by promoting its ancient heritage.

Last week, Egypt transported the mummified remains of 18 ancient kings and four queens across Cairo from the iconic Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, a procession dubbed the “Pharaohs’ Golden Parade.”

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The (C) float carrying the mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I (1525-1504 BC) advances as part of the parade of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies departing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on April 3, 2021, on their way to their new resting place at the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.(Photo by Mahmoud KHALED / AFP)

Among the 22 bodies were those of Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye.
Zahi Hawass gonna cover up all the important shyt fukk that nikka
 

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The results I posted is not the official "published" results. But are the results by a private genetic testing company called DNA Tribes. What happened was back in 2010 Zahi Hawass and his team tested the DNA of the 18th dynasty mummies AKA Tut's family. They found the results shocking and too "dangerous" and left the STR results "unmasked." Here is the original study.
http://mv.vatican.va/1_CommonFiles/pdf/Eventi/conferenze/17_conf_tutankhamun.pdf

What DNAtribes did was just put the STR results in their OWN computers and UNMASKED the results. The results(obviously) showed Tut's family African. What DNAtribes did is what ANYONE online can do with a computer and if they know what they're doing. The problem is that DNAtribes is a private company and not peer-reviewed and so their results did not make it as mainstream.

And yes Zahi Hawass banned DNA testing, I plan to make a thread on this in the root.
He routinely skews information and outright lies about the rulership of black Egyptians to the point where other scholars in Egyptology don’t even take him seriously anymore
 

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@Booksnrain what you think of this?
We desperately need more blacks in archaeology. I couldn’t do it but I regret not staying the course. This is a MAJOR find. Most archaeologists will tell you Africa is a literal goldmine of riches waiting to be discovered beyond Egypt, but Eurocentrism and racism hinders the work.
 

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why cant they just let the ancestors rest?

why are they always disturbing their graves?

:snoop:


Let them sleep.


Imagine you been chilling and resting for 3,000 years and now cacs digging you up and uploading pictures of you onto the internet.

SMH.

Always digging up the bodies of dead black men/women.
I think the ancestors eventually wanted to be discover and for all of their knowledge to help out the world Incase their civilization would perish..and it’s going just as the BLACK Gods planned ..True #Blackexcellence

they could of prob left the bodies undisturbed tho if possible..but now they whole worlds will know the legacy of these great black ppl 4ever..everything works out in the end..it’s always a purpose
 
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Breh must don't know Egyptians and other nations in the region sailed the Nile River.. :mjlol:

He’s prolly one of them slow ass dullards who believe the information that Henry Louis Gates and some of these Cacs provide that claim that the Kemetyu and other Africans couldn’t have possibly invented maritime trade, shipbuilding, and circumnavigation :mjlol: We couldn’t have possibly knew how to sail across the Mediterranean or sail across the Atlantic or sail towards the South Pacific or SE Asia, we ain’t Cacs :mjlol: Hell, the Sahara used to be green filled with lush grasslands and marshes as well as a massive inland sea during the Pre-Dynastic Kemetic period and Lower Kemet used to be underwater and filled with swampland, we couldn’t have possibly sailed those waterways...It’s inconceivable :mjlol: Don’t you know breh, Black people are scared of water and can’t swim :mjlol::mjlol::mjlol:
 
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