Egypt
Suite101 (Stan Parchin)
See the above page for more. There are photographs of the statue on the British Museum's 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...
- 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....
- More Discoveries From The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Yahoo! NB - the photograph currently showing on the page is not from the site - it is not even from Egypt - but is part of a slideshow of general archaeology and anthropology photographs. A team of archaeologists unearthed two large red granite statues...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
- The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
The statue from Amenhotep III temple of millions of years rises again complete with a replacement head, the original being in the British museum. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5827034.ece...
Egypt
British Museum joins statue parts
Suite101 (Stan Parchin)
A fiberglass cast of the British Museum's quartzite Head of Amenhotep III (r. 1390-1362 B.C.) has been joined to the body of a colossal statue of the pharaoh recently discovered at Kom el-Hettan, a site near modern Luxor in Egypt. The reproduction was hand-painted to match the sculpture's original coloring.
See the above page for more. There are photographs of the statue on the British Museum's 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...
- 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....
- More Discoveries From The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Yahoo! NB - the photograph currently showing on the page is not from the site - it is not even from Egypt - but is part of a slideshow of general archaeology and anthropology photographs. A team of archaeologists unearthed two large red granite statues...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
- The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
The statue from Amenhotep III temple of millions of years rises again complete with a replacement head, the original being in the British museum. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5827034.ece...