Two large statutes of an ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago, were discovered by a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists; while the excavation team was clearing out a temple dedicated to this pharaoh on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor, according to a statement by Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Hawass said one statute is made of black granite and shows Amenhotep wearing a traditional Pharaonic head cover, while the second one depicts him in the shape of sphinx - the mythological creature with a human head and the body of a lion…
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