They found a Khamun land.
Archaeologists discovered a 3,400 -year -old city that was possible erected by the father of King Tutankamón, Akhenaten, and housed a jug of wines stamped with the name of Nefertiti’s daughter, among other revealing artifications.
The findings, which were published in the “Antiquity” magazine, could remodel our understanding of Egyptian civilization.
This settlement, which was excavated for the first time in 2013, is located in the repository of Kom El-Nugus, about 27 miles west Alexandria on a rocky crest between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Mariout, said Live Science.
However, initially to be uninhabited until the occupation of the Greeks in 332 a. C., a surprise discovery of mud bricks dates back to the new dynasty of the kingdom (around 1550 to 1070 a.
And this was not a small advanced position either.
“The quality of the remains, its planned organization around a street, could suggest a fairly large -scale occupation,” Sylvain Dhennin, archaeologist at the National French scientific research center (CNRS), told the study author.
This citadel housed a true treasure of artifacts and impressive structures.
Among the most notable were the remains of a temple that was built by the Egyptian pharaoh Rey Ramses II, who ruled a bet of 1279-1213 a. C., as well as “private funeral chapels” that mention “military personnel”, indicating the Dhennin of the city of the city of Conord.
“If the settlement was in fact of a military nature, there is also possible that there was also a fortified wall and administrative buildings,” he said. “The monumental building was almost completely dismantled, probably in successive waves of the imperial period (30 BC – ad 476)”.
Meanwhile, Central Street became imprintedly to drain the surface water and protect the fragile erosion mud structures, chordination to the Egyptologist of the United Kingdom Roger Forshaw, who did not participate in the investigation.
Perhaps the most unique finding was an amphora-a container with a thin neck and two handles, with the name of the merits, which was believed to be the sister or half question and the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
Dhennin speculated that it may have been a winery at the site dedicated to the princess, perhaps demonstrating that celebrity endorsements were alive and well in ancient times.
“The discovery of well -preserved levels and structures is bringing new dimensions to this new settlement of the kingdom,” said the archaeologist.
Dhennin hopes that the in progress in Kom el-Nugus will reveal the size and age of the settlement, as well as what was called in ancient times.
“More work is needed to shed light on the new history of the kingdom of the Mediterranean coast,” he said.
Interestingly, the founder of the fortress, Akhenaten, is or looks like a disruptor, in particular, is broken by the polytheistic tradition of civilization in favor of worshiping only the god of the sun, the name of the Pharaoh remarkably means “beneficial to eat.”
When his son Tutankhamon became Pharaoh, he invested the course and brought Egypt back to his multiple the fearful roots of God.
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