A team led by Yale Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city?site of a massive bread-making industry?that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.The discovery of the remains of this mud-brick settlement at the Umm Mawagir area in the Kharga Oasis, which functioned as an administrative center as well as major supplier of bread, stands to shed new light on an obscure era in Egyptian history, the Second Intermediate Period, when rival factions contended for domination of what had been a prosperous state united under Pharaonic rule, asserts Darnell.I posted the full article at: http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2010/08/ancient-?lost?-egyptian-city-discovered-by-yale-archaeologists/