With its storage houses, grinding stones, ovens and areas for meat production and everyday tools still intact, the site gives a rare glimpse into a working Egyptian city. Zahi Hawass Center for Egyptology / via Reuters A series of finds from the newly uncovered "lost golden city" near Luxor, Egypt, revealed on Thursday. Other archaeologists had previously searched for and failed to find the city. Hawass' team was searching for Tutankhamen's Mortuary Temple and was surprised to instead find a series of mud walls rising out of the sand, some about 10 feet tall and built in a zig-zag design characteristic of the period. Artifacts including rings, scarabs and colored pottery confirmed the dating to the reign of Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt from 1391 to 1353 B.C. The city is the largest uncovered from ancient Egypt and is only partly excavated.
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