Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt)<p>Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and implementing monotheism around the Aten figure. After he died his monuments were destroyed and successors omitted his name from lists of kings as polytheism was restored, including by Akhenaten’s son, Amenhotep III’s grandson, Tutankhamun.
It’s a shame that Hawass still works after his dodgy involvements when he was Minister of Antiquities. I am aware he was cleared in Egypt but just isn’t right.
Looks more like a town, and some more Thomas Edison-like promotion of Hawass. Dig up something from 12k years ago and I might get excited. 3000 years ago is essentially contemporary compared to the neolithic finds we have unearthed and dated in recent years. Where is neolithic Egypt?
Hope they run away on time if they find unusually active scarab beatles, sand devils with faces or mummies...<p>(I kid, I kid, of course, this kind of looks like the beginnings of many Mummy movies)
Seems that just digging the whole country and (after doing that) build the modern Egypt would be easier :-)<p>There are many things there, waiting to be unearthed (unsanded?)