On excavation of lost city in Egypt will take 10 years

Archaeologists will need at least 10 years to spend excavations on the spot of the newly discovered ancient city in Egypt. About this RIA Novosti said the scientist CHAYS Havas.

“works will last at least 10 years, since we need to find the entire city completely, as well as the area of ​​the temples,” he told. The scientist clarified that now in the lost city came off several quarters, there are premises for storing food, making clothes and bricks. In the near future, archaeologists will work on the site of the former temple district.

that scientists have found the lost city – the largest ancient settlement, ever found on the territory of Egypt – it became known in early April. He was named the elevation of ATON (The Rise Of Aten) in honor of the God of the Sun.

Age Ruins is estimated at three and a half thousand years and dates back to the rule of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. According to Egyptologists, the discovery of the lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery after the tomb of Tutankhamon. For eight months of excavations, scientists managed to detect several areas of the city with well-preserved buildings and artifacts.

In February 2021, American and Egyptian archaeologists discovered ancient brewery in the world: she acted in the ancient Egyptian city of Abidos, which was located on the West Bank of the Nile in more than 450 kilometers from Modern Cairo. Experts dated the brewery of Pharaoh Narre, who rules at the end of the XXXI century BC and the union of the Upper and Lower Egypt.

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