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		</div><p>Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old lost city, complete with mud brick houses, artefacts and tools from pharaonic times.</p>
<p>Noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass said an Egyptian mission had discovered the mortuary city in the southern province of Luxor.</p>
<p>It dates back to what is considered a golden era of ancient Egypt, the period under King Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty.</p>
<p>“Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,” Mr Hawass said in a statement.</p>
<p>The city, built on the western bank of the Nile River, was once the largest administrative and industrial settlement of the pharaonic empire, he added.</p>
<p>Last year, archaeologists started excavating in the area searching for the mortuary temple of King Tutankhamun.</p>
<p>However, within weeks, the statement said, archaeologists found mud brick formations that eventually turned out to be a well-preserved large city.</p>
<p>City walls, and even rooms filled with utensils used in daily life, are said to be present.</p>
<p>“The archaeological layers have laid untouched for thousands of years, left by the ancient residents as if it were yesterday,” the press release said.</p>
<p>The newly unearthed city is located between the temple of King Rameses III and the colossi of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.</p>
<p>The city continued to be used by Amenhotep III’s grandson Tutankhamun, and then his successor king Ay.</p>
<p>Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University, said the discovery of the lost city was the most important archaeological find since the tomb of Tutankhamun.</p>
<p>King Tut became a household name and helped renew interest in ancient Egypt when his tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered nearly fully intact in 1922.</p>
<p>Archaeologists have also found clay caps of wine vessels, rings, scarabs, coloured pottery, and spinning and weaving tools.</p>
<p>Some mud bricks bear the seal of King Amenhotep III’s cartouche, or name insignia.</p>
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