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  • King of the Wild Frontier (Hyksos art and architecture in the Sinai)

    08/15/2005 7:33:49 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 1,093+ views
    Al-Ahram Weekly ^ | 2005 | Nevine El-Aref
    A team of archaeologists digging at Tel-Habuwa, near the town of Qantara East and three kilometres east of the Suez Canal... chanced upon a cachet of limestone reliefs bearing names of two royal personalities and two seated statues of differing sizes. The larger statue is made of limestone and belongs to a yet unidentified personage, but from its size and features archaeologists believe that it could be a statue of Horus, the god of the city. In 2001 archaeologists unearthed remains of a mud-brick temple dedicated to this deity. The second is a headless limestone statue inscribed on the back...