Egypt
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- Breaking News: Akhenaten Statue Found
From Jane Akshar: The Akhenaton statue has been found!!! Just on the phone to a very excited Mansour Boraik who was so happy to tell me the statue had been found.There are no other sources yet for this story so we don't know where it was found, nor...
- Hemiunu To Be Loaned For Opening Of The Grand Egyptian Museum
Earth Times A German museum confirmed Sunday plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Doubts over the loan cropped up after Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant...
- More Re Statues Found At Kom El-hettan
drhawass.com Press release with photo. The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced that two red granite statues of King Amenhotep III and of the god Thoth, were unearthed near the Pharaoh’s funerary temple at Kom el-Hettan on Luxor’s west bank....
- Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Statues In Luxor
xinhuanet Egyptian archaeologists on Wednesday uncovered a statue of pharaoh and a bust of the famous woman pharaoh Hatshepsut in the southern city of Luxor, the state MENA news agency reported. The three-meter Amenhotep statue was "dug out with only...
- Egypt Says Sphinx Not Threatened By Water
Reuters Africa Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Thursday the Sphinx was not in danger after some media reported that water below the surface nearby could damage the 4,500-year-old monument. Concerns about potential damage to the limestone...
Egypt
Arguments over reported damage to statue
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"Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni ordered a probe into reports about mysterious damage to a pharaonic statue during restoration work at the Egyptian Museum. He asked Attorney General Maher Abdul Wahid to investigate the matter, the official MENA news agency reported, only hours after the country's top antiquities official dismissed the reports as being unfounded.
The Egyptian press, quoting museum officials, had reported that a statue of Khafre (2576-2551 BC), the fourth dynasty king and builder of the second pyramid at Giza, had been found damaged in the basement". At the same time, Zahi Hawass is apparently denying both that there is any damage, or that there is any evidence to suggest that the statue represents Khafre. See the full article on the Yahoo News website for more.
The Egyptian press, quoting museum officials, had reported that a statue of Khafre (2576-2551 BC), the fourth dynasty king and builder of the second pyramid at Giza, had been found damaged in the basement". At the same time, Zahi Hawass is apparently denying both that there is any damage, or that there is any evidence to suggest that the statue represents Khafre. See the full article on the Yahoo News website for more.
- Breaking News: Akhenaten Statue Found
From Jane Akshar: The Akhenaton statue has been found!!! Just on the phone to a very excited Mansour Boraik who was so happy to tell me the statue had been found.There are no other sources yet for this story so we don't know where it was found, nor...
- Hemiunu To Be Loaned For Opening Of The Grand Egyptian Museum
Earth Times A German museum confirmed Sunday plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Doubts over the loan cropped up after Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant...
- More Re Statues Found At Kom El-hettan
drhawass.com Press release with photo. The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced that two red granite statues of King Amenhotep III and of the god Thoth, were unearthed near the Pharaoh’s funerary temple at Kom el-Hettan on Luxor’s west bank....
- Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Statues In Luxor
xinhuanet Egyptian archaeologists on Wednesday uncovered a statue of pharaoh and a bust of the famous woman pharaoh Hatshepsut in the southern city of Luxor, the state MENA news agency reported. The three-meter Amenhotep statue was "dug out with only...
- Egypt Says Sphinx Not Threatened By Water
Reuters Africa Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Thursday the Sphinx was not in danger after some media reported that water below the surface nearby could damage the 4,500-year-old monument. Concerns about potential damage to the limestone...