Egypt
- Statue Of Egyptian King Amenhotep Iii Found
Egypt State Information Service A huge statue of King Amenhotep III has been discovered in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. The 13-meter-high quartzite statue was unearthed during excavations carried out by the mission of the Supreme Council for Antiquities...
- Parts Of Amenhotep Iii’s Double Statue Uncovered In Luxor
drhawass.com Press release. With photograph of 2 fragments. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced today that six missing pieces from the colossal double statue of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, have been discovered...
- Giant Statue Of Ancient Egypt Queen Found
National Geographic Archaeologists have uncovered a pristinely preserved statue of a powerful Egyptian queen at the sprawling mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor's West Bank. A joint European-Egyptian team found the 12-foot-tall (3.6-meter-tall)...
- 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...
- Queen Tiy
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/779/eg9.htmA short article on the Al Ahram website, reproduced in full here, offering a couple of new details: "A beautiful black granite statue of Queen Tiye, mother of the monotheistic king Akhnaten, was unearthed last...
Egypt
Statue of Queen Ti discovered
http://tinyurl.com/btf4g (Al Jazeera)
"A US archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says. The statue, mostly intact, was found under a statue of Amenhotep III in the sprawling Karnak Temple in Luxor, which was a royal city in ancient Egypt. The statue was found by an archaelogical team from the Johns Hopkins University. Ti was the first queen of Egypt to have her name appear on official acts alongside that of her husband. She was known for her influence in state affairs in the reigns of both her husband (1417-1379 BC) and of her son, Akhenaton, (1379-1362 BC) during a time of prosperity and power in the 18th dynasty. Her son is remembered for being the first pharaoh to advocate monotheism. Ti, of Nubian heritage, is believed to be the grandmother of Tutankhamun, perhaps the most famous ruler of ancient Egypt. Amenhotep III, who ruled for 38 years, made a basic change in the history of ancient Egypt when he named his wife, Ti, as queen against the tradition that his sister should be queen." This is the full item on the above web page.
This is also covered on the State Information Service, with a photograph:
"A US archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says. The statue, mostly intact, was found under a statue of Amenhotep III in the sprawling Karnak Temple in Luxor, which was a royal city in ancient Egypt. The statue was found by an archaelogical team from the Johns Hopkins University. Ti was the first queen of Egypt to have her name appear on official acts alongside that of her husband. She was known for her influence in state affairs in the reigns of both her husband (1417-1379 BC) and of her son, Akhenaton, (1379-1362 BC) during a time of prosperity and power in the 18th dynasty. Her son is remembered for being the first pharaoh to advocate monotheism. Ti, of Nubian heritage, is believed to be the grandmother of Tutankhamun, perhaps the most famous ruler of ancient Egypt. Amenhotep III, who ruled for 38 years, made a basic change in the history of ancient Egypt when he named his wife, Ti, as queen against the tradition that his sister should be queen." This is the full item on the above web page.
This is also covered on the State Information Service, with a photograph:
http://tinyurl.com/7hngc
- Statue Of Egyptian King Amenhotep Iii Found
Egypt State Information Service A huge statue of King Amenhotep III has been discovered in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. The 13-meter-high quartzite statue was unearthed during excavations carried out by the mission of the Supreme Council for Antiquities...
- Parts Of Amenhotep Iii’s Double Statue Uncovered In Luxor
drhawass.com Press release. With photograph of 2 fragments. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced today that six missing pieces from the colossal double statue of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, have been discovered...
- Giant Statue Of Ancient Egypt Queen Found
National Geographic Archaeologists have uncovered a pristinely preserved statue of a powerful Egyptian queen at the sprawling mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor's West Bank. A joint European-Egyptian team found the 12-foot-tall (3.6-meter-tall)...
- 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...
- Queen Tiy
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/779/eg9.htmA short article on the Al Ahram website, reproduced in full here, offering a couple of new details: "A beautiful black granite statue of Queen Tiye, mother of the monotheistic king Akhnaten, was unearthed last...