The discovery of the city "Rise of Aten" in Luxor
The "Rise of Aten" While looking for the funerary temple of Tutankhamun in the western bank of Thebes, Dr. Zahi Hawass in collaboration with the supreme council of Antiquities succeeded to unearth an ancient city that is probably 3400 years old, located between the funerary temple of Ramses III, Medinet Habu, and the funerary temple of Amenhotep III where only the colossal statues of Memnon survived. The "Rise of Aten was abandoned during the reign of the heretic king Akhenaten, and when his son became king, the city was then brought back to life, after that he changed his name to Tutankhamun and moved back to Thebes after abandoning the city of Akhetaten. The archaeologists were first searching for the mortuary temple of Tutankhamun in this location, but it was a huge surprise when they found an almost complete city with ruins and walls from dwellings and houses, in addition to some daily life equipment, as well as a cemetery full of rock-cut tombs! And seems like the
