Posted on 02/28/2010 12:48:20 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
AFP - Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a colossal statue head of the pharaoh whom DNA tests revealed last week was King Tutankhamun's grandfather, the government said on Sunday.
The red granite head of King Amenhotep III, part of a larger 3,000 year-old statue, was discovered at the site of the pharaoh's funerary temple in Luxor, Egypt's culture ministry said in a statement.
"The newly discovered head is intact and measures 2.5 metres (8.2 foot) high," antiquities chief Zahi Hawass was quoted as saying.
"It is a masterpiece of highly artistic quality and shows a portrait of the king with very fine youthful sculptured features," Hawass said, adding there were still traces of red paint on the head.
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Fabulous
I would love to take my family to Israel, Egypt and the middle east for them to see this history however, the current care takers seem to be of an evil I cannot understand and will not allow them to risk their lives.
Some will say I let them win while others will understand.
No American blood or toil needs to be spread in that land.
Anyone else notice that Egyptian art is so stylized that all the carved heads look alike?
Thick lips, broad nose. Negroid features it seems.
Nigerian in the sand pile?
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that the ancient Egyptians were not the same people who inhabit Egypt now. Don’t know if that is true or not, but they don’t look like the pharoah’s statues.
I don’t see that. The eyes look very oriental, the mouth, though wide and full lipped is very different as well. I think it almost looks like a race that is no longer here.
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