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Theo Farrant

3,400-year-old Egyptian town with links to King Tutankhamun unearthed near Alexandria

A French team of archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery - the ruins of a 3,400-year-old Egyptian town near the modern-day city of Alexandria, that was possibly built by the legendary King Tutankhamun’s father, Akhenaten.

Detailed in a new study published in Antiquity, the mud-brick ruins are believed to date back to Egypt’s 18th Dynasty (circa 1550–1292 BCE), a period known for its wealth, power, and dramatic shifts in religious ideology.

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