Archeologists find 2,000-year-old statue at Kom Ombo temple near Aswan in southern Egypt. ... The newly uncovered sandstone statue, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry said ...

CAIRO, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's antiquities ministry said on Sunday that it has uncovered a sandstone Sphinx statue during an excavation at the Kom Ombo Temple in Upper Egypt's province of Aswan.

As for the second, it portrays King Ptolemy IV, his wife and Egyptian deities. On Sept. 16, Egypt announced the discovery of a sandstone Sphinx statue during an excavation at the Kom Ombo Temple. Two ...

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Archaeologists discover sandstone Sphinx statue during work to protect an ancient Egyptian temple. The Antiquities Ministry says the sphinx was found in the Temple of Kom Ombo ...

New sphinx: Egyptian archeologists have uncovered a new sphinx in Kom Ombo, an ancient temple near the country's southern city of Aswan.The sphinx is believed to be older than 2,000 years.

Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry said on Sunday.

It probably dates back to the Greco-Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt from 305BC until 30BC. Two sandstone reliefs of King Ptolemy V were also recently found at the temple.