The company that initiated the excavations for the road-building project, Netivei Israel, is now planning to build the road high above the ruins to protect them, according to the statement. The 3000 year-old city which dates back to the reign of Amenhotep III was discovered near Luxor. "Its impressive planning, the tools brought to Israel from Egypt found at the site, and its seal impressions are proof of this." Below some of the houses, the archaeologists also uncovered evidence of an even older city that dates back some 7,000 years to the Chalcolithic period. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered Aten or 'the lost golden city' which is believed to be the largest ancient city ever discovered in Egypt and one of the most important finds since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. "Such a city could not develop without having behind it a guiding hand and an administrative mechanism," they said. What's more, the city was built during a time period when rural populations in the area began to urbanize and likely had a system in place to help plan the city. They found evidence of two springs that might indicate that people earned money from agriculture, according to the statement. "This is a huge city - a megalopolis in relation to the Early Bronze Age, where thousands of inhabitants, who made their living from agriculture, lived and traded with different regions and even with different cultures and kingdoms in the area," Itai Elad, Yitzhak Paz and Dina Shalem, the directors of the excavation, said in the statement. (Image credit: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority) He proposed that the second layer, Troy II, corresponded to the city of legend, though later research has shown that it predated the Mycenaean era by several hundred years.
The figurines included this one of a human head. In 2014, archaeologists made an amazing discovery in the jungles of Mexico two ancient Maya cities that had been lost over time, including ruined pyramid. In 187179, he discovered the ruins of a series of ancient cities dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period.