Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian shrine and hidden treasures while researching the lost “City of the Sun” – one of the oldest cities in Egypt.

The artefacts are thought to mostly date back to the New Kingdom (1570 to 1070 B.C.) and Hellenistic era (323 B.C.E. to 31 B.C.E.) but some of the earliest pieces are more than 5,000 years old.

The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth, a new study finds.

Article Published: 14 April 1923 The Sun-Cult in Ancient Egypt AYLWARD M. BLACKMAN Nature 111, 499–502 (1923) Cite this article ...