More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...

Luxor, Egypt, Dec 14 (EFE).Luxor, Egypt, Dec 14 (EFE). — Two huge statues of Egyptian Pharoah Amenhotep III that were toppled by an earthquake in the year 1,200 B.C., have been reerected on their ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently rediscovered two sphinxes that guarded the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun. Despite 3,400 years of weathering, the sphinxes ...

The sphinxes were originally 26 feet (8 meters) long. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered two ...

Archaeologists on Sunday unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt's famed temple city of Luxor, adding to an existing pair of world-renowned tourist attractions. The two ...

The Funerary Temple of Amenhotep III on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor has reclaimed much of its original grandeur with the re-erection of two of the king’s colossal statues. On Luxor’s West Bank, ...

Archaeologists restoring the funerary temple of King Amenhotep III uncovered parts of two “colossal sphinxes.” The statues depict Amenhotep III “in the form of a Sphinx, wearing a mongoose headdress, ...

When Amenhotep III (reigned c1390 - 1352 BC) became Pharaoh in 1390 BC, Egypt had become the richest and most powerful nation on earth through war and conquest. The new king tried a different approach ...

A European excavation team working on the funerary temple of King Amenhotep III discovered a set of statues depicting the lioness goddess of war Sekhmet and a partial statue of King Amenhotep III.

Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority ...

CAIRO — A statue of the daughter of King Amenhotep III, who was Tutankhamun's grandfather and ruler of Egypt around 3,350 years ago, has been unearthed by a team of Egyptian and European ...