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Aten (the 'Lost Golden City')

Egypt's largest known city of its era, founded under Amenhotep III around 1386-1353 BCE on Luxor's west bank and remaining in use through Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ay's reigns into the Coptic period. Zahi Hawass's team found it by accident in 2020-21 while searching for Tutankhamun's mortuary temple, and its Pompeii-like intactness after three millennia - full streets, houses, workshops, even bakeries with tools still in place - led Egyptologist Betsy Bryan to call it the most important Egyptian find since Tutankhamun's tomb.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1,386 BCE mainstream
  city founded under Amenhotep III source
• 2021 CE mainstream
  discovery announced by Zahi Hawass's team source

Where

25.7225° N, 32.6017° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten_(city)

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