While the Animalia Halloween Exposition and Carnival was drawing to a close, there were other plans in motion overseas. Mainly they involved Animalia Colonies in other places that would be comfortable for Animalians from different terrains and continents. While the colony in the Serengeti was not discarded, there were also plans to include one in Egypt. The plan for that was to have something along the lines of Ancient Egypt combined with the old videogame Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, with humans interacting with Animalians native to the Egyptian desert. But, many times, surveying land for future colonies often lead to important archaeological finds, such as what was now The Lost City of Vilcabamba, and soon in Egypt as well.
What was originally a survey of the land where the city was going to be placed turned into a brand new archaeological dig, because ancient Egyptian houses were discovered purely by accident. Because of the discovery, the survey was put on hold while Melbourne and other Egyptologists surveyed the small city that had been found.
What it turned out to be was determined to be the most important find in Egypt since the discovery of the Tombs of the Golden Mummies. It was a small city that had been founded during the Second Intermediate Period as a kind of refuge during the Hyksos occupation, but was abandoned in 1420 BC due to being no longer needed as a refuge.
While it was actually pretty standard for a Second Intermediary Period City, the small necropolis/graveyard found nearby had a papyrus scroll with a reference to a previously unknown pharaoh named Ahmose II, who was known as the "founder of a new kingdom". It also referenced where he was supposedly buried. Comparing details in the scroll with a GPS map of Egypt, it was determined that he was buried in a small valley 100 miles to the north of what is now known as the Valley of the Kings. After some investigation, it was determined that shortly after Ahmose II's burial, there was a landslide that covered up the tomb's entrance and completely concealed it.
Both the Egyptian authorities, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Melbourne decided not to excavate Ahmose II's tomb at the time, both to keep grave robbers out, and to finish documenting what was now identified as the world's first real refugee camp. Part of what made what would soon be known as Refuge City in Arabic was an internet video of Bast, the world's first uplifted caracal cat Animalian with an Egyptology Degree, dressed up as her ancient Egyptian namesake wandering the city and lamenting the fall of the Egyptian culture to Greece, and later Rome. This video would not only serve as new advertisement for the planned Egyptian Animalian Colony, it would generate more than a million views, partly due to the fact that Bast was technically topless with only an Egyptian style hairpiece to provide modesty.