In April, archaeologists dug up a 3000-year-old lost city that researchers hailed as the most significant discovery since Tut's tomb was found in the nearby Valley of the Kings.
One of the country's richest archaeological sites continues to be the area around Luxor, the modern city and great open-air museum that sits on top of ancient Thebes, once the grand capital of Upper Egypt. Experts think it's the oldest in the world. Farther south in the Nile-side city of Sohag, researchers found a 5000-year-old brewery that likely made beer for funerary rituals.
Experts believe the golden tongues gave the mummies the ability to speak in the afterlife. In Saqqara, an active burial ground for more than 3500 years, the discovery in January of a temple with inscriptions dedicated to a previously unknown ancient queen is rewriting history.Ī month later, near Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast, archaeologists uncovered burial chambers housing two golden-tongued mummies. The Egyptian sands continue to slowly give up their treasures that have been secreted away for thousands of years, triumphantly unearthed by archaeologists across the country.
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