Egypt
- The Results Of Fieldwork At Kom El-hettan (amenhotep Iii, Luxor)
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press Release (see the above page for the full story). With photos. During their excavation at the funerary temple of the 18th Dynasty king, Amenhotep III (c. 1390-1352 BC), at Kom el-Hettan on the west bank of Luxor, the mission...
- Helipolis Update
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/784/eg4.htm Nevine El-Aref, providing a good summary of the new temple at Heliopolis, with some additional information: "This site is believed to be an important part of the ancient city of Iunu (ancient Heliopolis), which...
- Part Of Colossus Found Near Luxor
http://tinyurl.com/9jykm (Egyptian State Information Service) Excavations at Kom el-Hettan, under Hourig Sourouzian, have uncovered a pink granite head of Amenhotep III: "A German expedition has unearthed part of a colossal statue of an XVIII dynasty...
- More Re Amenhotep Iii Temple Statues
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=3090692 "One of the goddess statues is made of granite, the other diorite, while the head is granite.The lower legs of one of the goddess statues were broken off, while only the upper body...
- Hourig Sourouzian: Resurrection
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/768/profile.htm"The Colossi of Memnon, two lonely sentinels, have greeted visitors to the Theban necropolis since Roman times. More recently, as you look beyond the seated monoliths, a temple can be seen progressively re-emerging...
Egypt
Amenhotep III temple red granite head
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/782/hr1.htm
Hourig Sourouzian, director of the German conservation project for the Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III's temple, has been interviewed by Al-Ahram Weekly: "She explained that since excavation of the site began in 1998 the mission had consistently stumbled upon homogenous New Kingdom statuaries until last week, when a well-preserved red granite royal head with Kushite features -- full cheeks and bulging lips -- was unearthed. The 50-cm-tall head was found among several decaying granite block on a sandstone slab at the north end of the temple. Its top and right side were damaged, the nose was lightly chipped and the chin was broken. 'It is a very beautiful head wearing a nemes (regal headdress),' says Sourouzian, who asserts that it does not belong to the area where it lay buried.
See the above web page for the full story on the Al Ahram website.
- The Results Of Fieldwork At Kom El-hettan (amenhotep Iii, Luxor)
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press Release (see the above page for the full story). With photos. During their excavation at the funerary temple of the 18th Dynasty king, Amenhotep III (c. 1390-1352 BC), at Kom el-Hettan on the west bank of Luxor, the mission...
- Helipolis Update
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/784/eg4.htm Nevine El-Aref, providing a good summary of the new temple at Heliopolis, with some additional information: "This site is believed to be an important part of the ancient city of Iunu (ancient Heliopolis), which...
- Part Of Colossus Found Near Luxor
http://tinyurl.com/9jykm (Egyptian State Information Service) Excavations at Kom el-Hettan, under Hourig Sourouzian, have uncovered a pink granite head of Amenhotep III: "A German expedition has unearthed part of a colossal statue of an XVIII dynasty...
- More Re Amenhotep Iii Temple Statues
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=3090692 "One of the goddess statues is made of granite, the other diorite, while the head is granite.The lower legs of one of the goddess statues were broken off, while only the upper body...
- Hourig Sourouzian: Resurrection
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/768/profile.htm"The Colossi of Memnon, two lonely sentinels, have greeted visitors to the Theban necropolis since Roman times. More recently, as you look beyond the seated monoliths, a temple can be seen progressively re-emerging...