Posted on 08/17/2008 9:53:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed four small statues of the Sphinx, the mythological figure of a lion with a human head, the Higher Council of Antiquities said on Friday.
The headless sandstone statues were found on a road linking the ancient temples of Luxor and Karnak in southern Egypt, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said in a statement.
They were unearthed in an area once occupied by a police station that was demolished as part of a project to rescue artifacts, Hawass said.
The statues date from the reign of King Nekhtnebef who founded the 30th Pharaonic dynasty (363-380 BC), Hawass added.
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No offense, SunkenCiv, but Nekhtnebef needs to check back with Vanna White.
"...many would agree that Dr. Hawass is successfully promoting a positive image of Egypt at a time when cultural tension between the Muslim world and the West is running high. At the same time, even friends do not deny that Dr. Hawass unstintingly promotes himself in the process."
"He's a media whore, and as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with that," said Farouk El-Baz, the Egyptian-American director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, a satellite-imaging expert who has worked with Dr. Hawass for years." - link
This would be the very last decades of the independent Egyptian kingdom, since Alexander the Great conquered Egypt before the end of the century.
:’) nice summation. No posting pictures please, that means you Blam.
LOL!
antiquities supremo
Whoa, he just gets better and better.
I’d hold out for Antiquarian Overlord myself.
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