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<\/a><\/p>\nTutankhamun’s coffin removed from tomb for first time<\/strong><\/p>\n “The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun,” Betsy Brian, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n She said the city would “give us a rare glimpse into the life of the ancient Egyptians” at the time when the empire was at its wealthiest.<\/p>\n The dig revealed a large number of valuable archaeological finds, such as jewellery, coloured pottery, scarab beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The team began excavations on the west bank of Luxor near the Valley of the Kings, some 500 km (300 miles) south of the capital Cairo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “Within weeks, to the team’s great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions,”\u00a0Dr Hawass<\/strong> said in his statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a good condition of preservation, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life.”<\/p>\n