Egypt: Water project leads to unearthing 18th dynasty artifacts in Luxor

The archaeologists have been working in a project aimed at reducing the level of underground water to rescue temples at the Western part of Luxor. The found statues date back to the 18th Pharaonic Dynasty.

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said that a mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities unearthed two large red granite statues close to the funerary temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor city.

Two statues of the Pharaonic god of wisdom Thoth and the upper half of a double statue of king Amenhotep III and god Ra Horakte in addition to the pedestal of an alabaster statue from the era of king Thutmose III were unearthed in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor on Mach 16th 2010 .

For his part, SCA Secretary General Zahi Hawwas said that what the mission discovered were a statue of Thoth, the ancient god of wisdom and the bust of a statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III standing next to Pharaonic god Ra Horakte.