Archaeologists in Egypt have announced the discovery of a three-millennia-old “lost golden city” from the era of 18th-dynasty king Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt from 1391 to 1353 B.C.
- The discovery is being touted as the most important find since the unearthing of King Tutankhamun’s tomb almost 100 years ago.
- The newly discovered old city is located on the west bank of the Nile river near Luxor.
- According to the news reports, the city continued to be used by pharaohs Ay and Tutankhamun, whose nearly intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
- The noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass said that the city was once the largest administrative and industrial settlement of the pharaonic empire and many foreign missions who were looking for the settlement had not been able to find it.
