by So ay ay teen, Egypt – it is a familiar story: the mood of a guide increases the life of the citizens and leads them to the wilderness.
The Pharaoh Alchenaten was no different in ancient Egypt. He found that his population should stop worship more than 3,300 years ago to worship several gods, and asked the residents to seal their houses and workshops in the city SO’OUD with mud and clay stones and move to a new home, a leading Egyptologist Zawi Hawass, to NBC News last month.
“If the king makes a decision, everyone has to follow the decision,” said Hawass. “This is the pharaoh.”
Her exodus was so quickly that many of a number of objects, including jewelry, ceramics, children’s shoes and toys as well as a pizza shell that were used by those made by their modern descendants bread – a treasury that is now being restored by archaeologists. NBC News received exclusive access to the latest knowledge.
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But there is still a lot of puzzles in a city that was only discovered by archaeologists four years ago who were looking for a corpse temple in which animal skeletons were arranged for religious rights. Egyptologists can never find out why a fish was covered with gold.
A variety of pottery pieces paints a blue color that is only used for the kings that are still discovered.
“Nobody can really explain it,” said Hawass, adding that around 500 statues of the world, the goddess of healing, were also found at the location, which he referred to as the “lost golden city”, partly because it thrown during the golden age of Egypt.
Today it is a sleepy stain, surrounded by a metal fence and a dusty road. Archaeologists work in the blazing sun in the place where an artificial lake was recently excavated with boot moorings and was probably created for the delivery and posting of goods to the Nile.
Characteristic wavy or serpentine walls served the purpose that deflected floods and delivers a closed workplace outdoors, which was protected from the sun and restricts the entry into the district.
However, its location is of great importance. Near Luxor, an old city in Central Egypt, it is surrounded by historical monuments, including the Memnon colossi, the Madinat Habu Temple and the Ramesseum. During the 18th dynasty, this was royal Egypt.
Hawass, who acted as an Egyptian Minister of Antiques, said that Souroud Aten provides important information about the high standard of living for artisans and craftsmen as well as “Daily life of the people” who were so good that archaeologists “found many shower in the houses,” he said.
In the past few months, Hawass said that a number of administrative buildings that are similar to a police station or a town hall were also discovered.
Egyptologist Zawi Hawass.
“It is a snapshot in time,” said Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo.
The workers have just laid down their tools, she said and added: “Her stuff lies around.
Another latest discovery, a picture of the sun that was etched on the wall of a room in the city of the city, in which rotary, leather and jewelry production occurred, seems to signal a shift in religious thinking over time, said Hawass.
Then Akhenaten decided in his life -changing judgment that his citizens should worship aten who was represented by the sun, and added that it may be the first historical example of monotheism.
Others like Ikram prefer to define him as Henekeist – someone who reveres a certain God and at the same time recognizes the existence and potential worship of other deities.
Akhenaten, said Hawass, was “hated” by religious priests who benefited from the adoration of several gods.
“He wanted to go to a place where he worships,” said Hawass, adding that he had selected a place that is now known as a Tell-El Amarna, about 200 miles south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
He called the new city the “climb of Aten”, said Hawass, adding that he was of the opinion that he was inspired to build the city by his father Amenhotep III, which from 1391 to 1353 BC. Chr. Egypt ruled
There was a picture of sun rays in the so’Oud ate district, in which rotary, leather and jewelry production occurred.
Queen Nefertiti, Akhenatens, far more famous, would have walked through the streets next to him, added Hawass.
The step was a “religious revolution,” said Yasmin El Shazly, deputy director of the American Research Center in Egypt, which offers some archaeologists financial support. “We know that the religion was increasingly solar during the reign of Amenhotep LLL. There are indications of the aten, but there are other deities. So we know that it was not monotheistic at that time.”
But mentioned other gods, even the great deity amun, “almost became taboo,” she said.
The Memnon colossi represents King Amenhotep Lll, father of Akhenaten.
After the death of Akhenaten, the city was still used by pharaohs, including Tutankhamun, the almost intact grave of which was discovered in 1922 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in the valley of the kings.
What the citizens think about letting their original home in So’oud Aten remains unclear.
By blocking the doors, he said that they seemed that they thought they could come back and they wanted to “protect it”.
But at the time he said nobody could raise their objections to the pharaoh. “Nobody can speak to the king,” he said.
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