http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/55645/New-sphinx-discovered-in-Luxor
CAIRO – 9 August 2018: A sphinx was found during the development of Al-Kabbash Road project, declared General Director of Luxor Antiquities Mohamed Abdel Aziz on Sunday.
Abdel Aziz remarked that the ministry is currently working on lifting the statue because due to the nature of the environment it is in, it cannot be extracted directly from its place.
He added that Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani has urged tourists to visit Al-Kabbash road to see the statue.
In the same context, Bassam al-Shamma, a researcher in Egyptology, remarked that the Sphinx’s discovery is expected as several sphinx statues are found across Luxor such as the
sphinx statues for King Aymanhotb III and Thutmose IV.
Al-Kabbash Road project, which would be finished by the end of 2018, was resumed in 2017 with a budget of LE 230 million ($12.7 million) in cooperation with Luxor governorate, the
head of the projects’ sector at the Ministry of Antiquities, Waheed Abou el-Ela, told Egypt Today Friday, quoting Minister al-Anani.
Abou el-Ela said the road will be paved to allow easy access for visitors in addition to moving utilities like electricity and water. The project includes the development of the floors, the
completion of the excavation and repairs to the collection of Al-Kabbash, ram-headed sphinxes, in the warehouses followed by re-installing them.
Al-Anani announced that an engineering committee visited Luxor on May 27 to discuss all the project’s obstacles, to prepare a detailed study of the current situation and to prepare a
comprehensive financial feasibility study for the project.
Al-Kabbash Road is the road that connects Luxor Temple to Karnak Temple. The project to excavate and restore Al-Kabbash Road began in 2005 and about LE 600 million have been
spent on the project. The project was halted after the January 25 Revolution.
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It must be a bitch to work in construction in Egypt. Anytime you find something, construction stops for however long it takes for the archaeologists to finish doing their work.
The sphinx will be running for office obvs
That suddenly make me crave for a new The Mummy movie
Whoa I was just now reading a chapter about one of the pharaohs they mentioned and the construction projects during that period were completely absurd. I would love to see a faithful computer recreation of ancient Luxor or even a real replica of one of the Temples with all of the less time-resistant detail intact.
Reading about it makes you totally rethink what they were capable of in the "ancient" world. It reminds me of that Kurzgesagt video about how where we put our year 0 is misleading. I think it has the effect of unfairly lumping anything B.C. into this vague mush of history that generally people don't have a sense of length or scale of. The Ancient Egyptians were around for like 3000 years, no big deal though.
Moved to sensationalist headlines
Assassins Creed Origins?
Must've been buried during the Pyramid Wars of 87.
Egyptian themed horror is definitely something I could use more of.
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