An unidentified royal statue head found in Luxor
The Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission unearthed on Thursday a
large granite head of a statue of an unidentified New Kingdom king
during routine excavation at King Thutmose III’s funerary temple on
Luxor’s west bank. Mohamed Abdel-Maqsoud, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities
Section at the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), explained that
the head is 29.6cm high, 24.3cm wide and 26.9cm deep. The head depicts a
round face of a royal figure, not identified yet, wearing a wig, with
traces of a broken nose, and two long ears that each reach 8cm. The
eyes, he continued, have traces of kohl, with thick eyebrows. Read more.
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