Egyptologist Zahi Hawass Announces Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass Announces Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor

Dubbed “the second most important archeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun.”

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Thursday that an Egyptian mission under the supervision of Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass discovered a city – dubbed the Rise of Aten – which had been under the sands for 3,000 years, dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III.

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originally posted by: Lysergic
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They found entire rooms filled with daily use items.
How in hell does something like this become buried....
with no sign of apparent salvage/pillage?

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Oops, too much traffic for them too handle I guess... try these.

3,000-year-old 'Lost Golden City' unearthed in Egypt's Luxor

Egypt says it has uncovered a vast, untouched, 3,000 year-old ‘lost golden city’

Ya' beat me to it. Snf!

El Dorado?

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It does work eventually.

They found entire rooms filled with daily use items.
How in hell does something like this become buried....
with no sign of apparent salvage/pillage?

dbl

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Could it be possible that it is much older than they say/think it is?

They have had this problem many times before with Hancock, Bauval, West, Schok, Carlson.... who have proven the hard core Egyptologists wrong in so many of their assessments of Egyptian history, sites, artifacts and archaeology in general.

The pictures they posted looks like a catastrophe occurred which blew the tops off the buildings , (they should find human remains) and then buried it.

I wonder it this had anything to do with the burying of this little city....

5000 year old meteorite crater found in Luxor

Still an age difference, most likely in both stories....

Wonder how close this was to the Luxor "Golden City"

This is a huge find!
Years of work lie ahead-I bet they will find loads of great stuff.
Always interesting when we find something that seems to have been abandoned fast-like in this case they find many "daily use" items lying around,suggesting people maybe just left without packing stuff to take with them.

Hawass said the city was still active during Amenhotep III's co-regency with his son, Akhenaten, but that the latter eventually abandoned it when he took the throne. Akhenaten then founded Amarna, a new capital in the modern-day province of Minya, some 250 km south of Cairo and 400 km north of Luxor.

abcnews.go.com...

According to Hawass the new ruler abandoned the city to make a new one elsewhere.
Sorry but why leave so many daily use items lying around-does not make sense.

I would guess if people left so much stuff behind there was some other more urgent reason-maybe a disease spread though the population so everyone just ran off,or maybe a ghost or some other bad omen was seen nearby and the supersticious locals left.
Or possibly a rumor of war-an ememy force/bandits is seen approaching,people leave and the enemy follows them,leaving the city untouched.
Could be any reason really-but Hawass's idea does not account for why so much daily items were left-If the new king wants to move the city-wouldn't everyone pack up their stuff to move to the new city?

Great find though,one to watch.

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originally posted by: Lysergic
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It does work eventually.

They found entire rooms filled with daily use items.
How in hell does something like this become buried....
with no sign of apparent salvage/pillage?

dbl

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Noahs Flood buried it just like it buried many other sites of differring ages.

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No when an ancient city died it meant the young people moved to a new area and the old people died off. Soon you have a ghost town much like in the old west.

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It was abandoned precisely because Akhenaten became sole ruler. He completely overturned Egyptian society and religion. It was, effectively, a completely new beginning so doing away with the old was essential if he was to have any chance of success.

Hawass isn't the government guy anymore.

Why is he the one to break this?

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I don't know hardly anything about ancient Egypt, so i'm wondering, is it interesting that the writing on that jug in the picture isn't hieroglyphics?
Maybe trade from somewhere else?

Cool find though.

Fascinating, well the son Akhenaten was of course famous for massive bibliocide and deicide in his quest to replace the old gods with his cult of the impersonal, omnipotent "Aten" (some say the first monotheistic view of God, and possibly the forerunner of Judaism, Christianity and Islam).

Apparently this included the vandalism and destruction of entire towns and religious complexes.

It didn't quite last however at that stage, and many of his depictions were similarly defaced and vandalized by the polytheists after his death.
en.wikipedia.org...

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Hawass isn't the government guy anymore.

Why is he the one to break this?

Because he is in charge of the excavation. He might not be with the government but hes still an archeologist. And he has a vast knowledge of egyptian culture so whoever is funding it wanted him.

Great Post----just had a chance to dive into the article.

The biggest takeway---Here's to hoping a cemetery full of untouched graves can be catalogued in their entirety.

Because every time we hear about something major you can almost bet the looters led someone there on accident

How does a city get buried like this? Rooms full of objects still in place etc with no looting or thieving of it all over the centuries ? A ‘Pompeii style ‘ discovery , this from RT :

The ruins boast intact city streets flanked by houses with walls up to 10 feet high. Archaeologists also discovered rooms filled with tools of daily life, left by the city’s former inhabitants “as if it were yesterday,” the statement said. Rings, colored pottery vessels, casting molds to make amulets, pots used to carry meat, and various types of tools were unearthed during the excavation. A large bakery “complete with ovens and storage pottery” was also discovered.

?? Buried then. By what ? When? Wonder if that Burckle crater has anything to do with it . Mega tsunamis washing up Egypt putting deposition sand everywhere .
The article in RT also says they found human skeletons.
Whatever happened, the ‘ things left like it was yesterday ‘ seems to suggest a quick inundation of some sort .
An curious find indeed , and curiously reported too with little focus on its apparently quick burial..

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As the .gov guy, he was accused of lying to us all and being a scoundrel. Maybe he was but now he's not the .gov guy so, maybe, possibly, he can let us in on what he finds? Maybe it was the Egyptian government that was holding him down, eh?

I'm throwing spaghetti at the wall just to see if anything sticks. My simple first thoughts on this when I saw the name Hawass. I'm not even sure any of that works in the way the real world works but them's my thoughts.