The Lost Golden City- Egypt

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A couple of months ago a huge discovery was found in Luxor- Egypt as it was considered one of the biggest accomplishments that Egypt did in April, as they discovered a whole city underground that belonged to one of the biggest rules in the ancient days who was king Amenhotep III, the ninth king of the 18th Dynasty who ruled Egypt from 1391 to1353 B.C.

Luxor is located in Upper Egypt as one of the most important cities in Egypt due to her ancient history, this name of the city was given because it was the southern part that was ruled by Thebes as they grew up around a beautiful temple that was close to the Nile, the name means in Arabic "The Palaces" or "The Forts". 

The last golden city goes back about 3,400 years old as this Golden city was discovered by the archaeologist Zahi Hawass, head of the Egyptian mission in the west of Luxor, as he said " that among the most prominent findings in Luxor’s Lost City is a group of meat preservation vessels, with the name of the butcher and the name of the slaughterhouse and its weight recorded on them. A vessel containing two gallons of dried or boiled meat (10.5 kg) had inscriptions on it that can be read."as in this city they worshiped the god of Aten "the god of the sun"

They discovered rows of brick that goes in multiple directions as they thought at the beginning of digging it's going to a small complex or a tomb, but they found an entire city underneath the sand, what is known about this city in the ancient days that it was one of the wealthiest cities back then, and who lived here and ruled it had a lot of skilled workers as Hawass known enough about this golden city, he said that he had large bakery and pottery as they found pottery all over the city.

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Zahi was talking about calling it Golden city because this was the golden age of the city where the Egyptians were the wealthiest and called it lost because there were a lot of rumors about this city but it was never found, that why he called it "The Lost Golden City"  as there were three districts, one is for storage as they made sandals, sewing clothes, special stones for making bracelets and necklaces, as the wife Amenhotep the third had a lot of jewelry and a lot of evidence that can lead to Tutankhamon, as people took this as a first step for a big discovery.

I just love ancient Egyptian discoveries.

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- Farah Kareem

Sources:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/105578/Luxor-s-%E2%80%98Lost-Golden-City%E2%80%99-An-accomplishment-of-the-Egyptian#google_vignette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTpoOh7D7AY