A great archaeological discovery in Egypt

in #discovery6 years ago

The Egyptian archaeological mission, which works on the project of lowering the groundwater level in the Koum Imbo temple north of Aswan province, discovered a statue made of sandstone of the Sphinx. It was announced today in the remarks of Dr. Mustafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. To the Ptolemaic period, where it was found in the south-east of the Kom Ombo temple in the area between the outer wall and the archaeological hill, the same site that was discovered a month ago on the sandstone of King Ptolemy V.
In his remarks, Archaeologist Abdel Moneim Said, Director General of the Aswan and Nubia Antiquities, said that the mission will complete its archaeological studies on the discovered statue to find out more archaeological and historical information about it. He pointed out that the two previous paintings date back to the time of King Ptolemy V, and are made of sandstone with hieroglyphics and demotic writings They were transferred last week to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Al-Fustat for restoration and to enter the scenario of his museum exhibition

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