Two tourists gaze up at the giant Colossi of Memnon statues seated across the Nile from the modern day Egyptian city of Luxor in 2007. A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists announced a string of spectacular discoveries including that of a 15 metre statue of Queen Tiy, the wife of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Amenhoptep, at the site of the Colossi of Memnon in southern Egypt. (AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)
I wonder how no one ever saw it before now??
This is the first article in a long time that hasn’t had a quote from the guy who’s always in front of the camera on every TV show on Egyptian archaeology, ol’ what’s-his-name! Has he lost his job?