After years of being washed, perfumed and fed in ancient Egypt, the statue of a revered Egyptian deity was given a proper burial with other "dead" statues more than 2,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Authorities say archaeologists have unearthed a Sphinx-like Roman-era statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

The large Ptah statue dates back to the New Kingdom and a sphinx has the hallmarks of the Ptolemaic period. ... "It's protected by the sphinx. It's surrounded by the Osiris statues.

Clash of civilisations: Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old sphinx statue in the tomb of ancient Chinese scholar Relic was discovered in Ningxia, north China, along the ancient Silk Road ...

Archeologists found two large sphinx statues during the restoration of a temple in Luxor, Egypt. The "Temple of Millions of Years" was a vast funerary temple of King Amenhotep III, who ruled about ...

How did the sphinx statue get found? Image source, EPA. ... In February, more than thirty large ceramic pots were discovered at a site in Saqqara, close to Egypt's capital, Cairo.

Eat your heart out, Oedipus. An ancient temple in southern Egypt yielded a smiling, Sphinx-like statue amid the remnants of a shrine, the country’s Antiquities Ministry announced Monday. Arch… ...

In a historic find, a large fragment of an Egyptian statue measuring 45 X 40 centimeters, made of lime-stone, was discovered in the course of the current season of excavations at Tel-Hazor, north ...

Ancient Egyptians buried the statue of the deity Ptah — the god of craftsmen and sculptors — with other revered statues, including those of a sphinx, baboon, cat, Osiris and Mut, in a pit next ...

The statue is much smaller than the towering, well-known Sphinx in the Pyramids of Giza complex, which is 66 feet high. The archaeologists also found a Roman-era stone slab with demotic and ...