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    Has Egypt's second sphinx been found?

    • The new statue was discovered between the temples of Karnak and Luxor
    • The 'sphinx' was found on Al-Kabbash Road which connects the two temples
    • Officials has confirmed the statue has a 'lion's body with a human head'
    • Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt was near the Great Pyramids on the west bank
    • It is the oldest and largest known monumental sculpture in the world




    Egypt's long-rumoured second sphinx may have been unearthed by construction workers building a new road.

    According to local reports, a sphinx-like statue was found on Al-Kabbash Road, which connects the two temples of Karnak and Luxor built around 1400BC.

    Officials have confirmed the statue has a 'lion's body with a human head'.

    The 'second sphinx' has not yet been lifted from the ground, however, officials said tourists are welcome to visit the construction site to view the ancient statute.

    No photographs of the structure have been published, the Director General of Antiquities has confirmed.


    Reports suggest a sphinx-like statue (stock image) has been discovered
    between the ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor which date to around
    1400BC



    Excavations first started on the Karnak and Luxor temple complexes, located within the ancient city of Thebes, back in 1884, according to RT.

    This led to a flurry of significant archaeological discoveries until around 1960, when excavation work at the sites ceased.

    Construction workers uncovered the 'second sphinx' during a roadworks project between the temples of Karnak and Luxor.

    The Egyptian infrastructure project has been halted while the statue is examined.

    According to the area's Director General of Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, the statue can not yet be lifted 'due to the nature of the environment it is in'.

    Aziz has confirmed tourists are able to visit the road to see the statue for themselves, however, he confirmed no images of the statue have been released.

    The Al-Kabbash Road project to excavate and restore the road first began in 2005 and is scheduled to be finished by the end of this year at a cost of $12.7 million (£10m).


    The Al-Kabbash Road project in Luxor is due to be finished by the end of
    this year at a cost of $12.7 million (£10m)






    Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ead-found.html



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    If it can be lifted, not too big ?.

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    Quote Originally posted by Aianawa View Post
    If it can be lifted, not too big ?.
    yeah, that's my question... maybe they plan to levitate it?
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    If it has a human head, then either it is a copy of the Great Sphinx after the proposed original lion head was reshaped, or the proposed connection with the constellation Leo is dismissed.

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    I guess you do really need to be an archaeologist to see that this is a Sphinx.



    Archaeologists photographed the find alongside a metre-long measuring stick to give an idea of the sphinx's size, although much of the statue remains buried in sand



    Images from the site show unearthed parts of the statue, which experts say has a human head and lion's body

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    Meanwhile, the quest for the second “real” sphinx continues. As Ancient Pages previously reported, historians, Gerry Cannon and Malcolm Hutton are convinced the Great Sphinx of Giza had a twin and it may have been destroyed by lightning.

    The second sphinx was a female and the statue "disappeared" under unexplained circumstances. Cannon claims, however, that he managed to find the trail of the lost statue, analyzing the construction of the area around the pyramids.

    Buried for thousands of years, the second sphinx is located on a second mound alongside the male sphinx, standing guard in front of one of the Great Pyramids.

    “The Sphinx had to have been carved when there was no sand there. You can’t carve a rock when it’s under sand. When it was not under sand was about 12,000 years ago and the Egyptians weren’t there,” Cannon said.

    Cannon also added, there is little archaeological interest in finding the twin sphinx.

    In an interview with Express.UK, Cannon said, “It was as if every living Egyptologist had lost interest in this wonderful underground metropolis, for all their articles during the ensuing years are centred more on tombs of queens and shafts that had been sunk deep into the ground to burial tombs.
    Nobody knows what’s under there, no one has been able to investigate.

    They’re frightened that if they find stuff under there, it’s going to blow all their books and all their history out of the window.

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