Egypt
- The Two Colossi Of Memnon Are Now Three!
El Pais (Jacinto Anton) Thanks to Amigos de la Egiptologia for the link to this story. See the full sized version of the lovely photo on the El Pais website. If you look carefully, you can see Amenhotep III's wife standing, in comparatively...
- Archaeologists Unearth Granite Statue
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The upper part of a granite double statue of king Amenhotep III (1410-1372 BC) was unearthed at Kom El-Hittan in the west bank of Luxor. Kom el-Hittan is the site of the temple of Amenhotep III, which was once the largest temple...
- Egypt Discovers Statue Of Ancient Queen
All Headline News Archaeologists in Egypt have found a giant statue of an ancient queen at the site of two already huge Colossi of Memnon in southern Egypt. Reports indicate that the statue represents Queen Tiy, the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep...
- Hawass Highlights The Importance Of The Tomb Of Iker
Actualidad Apologies that there has been a sudden increase in article written in Spanish - but the fact that the discovery of the tomb was made by a Spanish team makes this somewhat inevitable. This piece says that Zahi Hawass has highlighted the importance...
- More Statues Of Sekhmet Found
http://tinyurl.com/m7myk (iol.co.za) "Egyptologists have discovered three 400-year-old statues depicting the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Monday. Sekhmet embodied the destructive powers of the sun and...
Egypt
Sekhment statues at Temple of Amenophis III
http://estadis.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/47573.html
I was actually looking for details of the new tomb next to that of Harwa but found this instead, which I apparently missed, dating to the 13th February: "El secretario general del Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades, Zahi Hawass, revisa varias estatuas de Sekhmet (diosa con cabeza de león), descubiertas por un equipo de arqueólogos españoles y alemanes durante los trabajos de conservación del Templo Amenofis III y del Colossi de Memnon, en la antigua Tebas, Luxor, en el norte de Egipto."
Roughly: Head of the SCA, Zahi Hawass reviewed a number of statues of the lion goddess Sekhment, found by a team of spanish and german archaeologists during work on the conservation of the Temple of Amenophis III and the Colossi of Memnon in ancienct Thebes, Luxor.
- The Two Colossi Of Memnon Are Now Three!
El Pais (Jacinto Anton) Thanks to Amigos de la Egiptologia for the link to this story. See the full sized version of the lovely photo on the El Pais website. If you look carefully, you can see Amenhotep III's wife standing, in comparatively...
- Archaeologists Unearth Granite Statue
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The upper part of a granite double statue of king Amenhotep III (1410-1372 BC) was unearthed at Kom El-Hittan in the west bank of Luxor. Kom el-Hittan is the site of the temple of Amenhotep III, which was once the largest temple...
- Egypt Discovers Statue Of Ancient Queen
All Headline News Archaeologists in Egypt have found a giant statue of an ancient queen at the site of two already huge Colossi of Memnon in southern Egypt. Reports indicate that the statue represents Queen Tiy, the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep...
- Hawass Highlights The Importance Of The Tomb Of Iker
Actualidad Apologies that there has been a sudden increase in article written in Spanish - but the fact that the discovery of the tomb was made by a Spanish team makes this somewhat inevitable. This piece says that Zahi Hawass has highlighted the importance...
- More Statues Of Sekhmet Found
http://tinyurl.com/m7myk (iol.co.za) "Egyptologists have discovered three 400-year-old statues depicting the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Monday. Sekhmet embodied the destructive powers of the sun and...