So far, the research team has identified a bakery, an administrative district and a residential area, as well as scarab beetle amulets, pottery and other everyday items.īetsy M.
Many of the Rise of Aten’s walls are well preserved. As BBC News reports, the city was established during the reign of Amenhotep III, between roughly 13 B.C. Zahi Hawass, a famous-and controversial-Egyptian scholar, announced the discovery of the “lost golden city” near Luxor, site of the ancient city of Thebes, on Thursday. In what experts are lauding as one of the most significant Egyptian archaeological finds of the past century, a team has uncovered the country’s largest known ancient city: So’oud Atun, or the “Rise of Aten.”
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