CAIRO - Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor.Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found brick houses, artifacts, and tools from pharaonic times at the site of the 3,000-year-old lost city.
It dates back to Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty, whose reign is considered a golden era for ancient Egypt."This is really a large city that was lost...
The inscription that found inside here says that this city was called: ‘The dazzling Aten’," Hawass told reporters at the site.Archeologists started excavating in the area last year, searching for the mortuary temple of boy King Tutankhamun.