In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

The statue was carved from a single piece of limestone, and pigment residue suggests that the entire Great Sphinx was painted ...

(credit: The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/Handout) "This head is part of a group of statues depicting King Ramses II seated alongside a number of Egyptian deities," Abdel Gawad said.

What it is: A broken statue depicting the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (also ... The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt ...

The Banyon-style sculpture stands about four feet tall and was found without its head, hands, and feet. However, experts believe that a carved left hand and a foot found nearby in 2024 came from ...

The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia ...

For thousands of years, sand buried the colossus up to its shoulders, creating a vast disembodied head atop ... The Egyptian archaeologist Selim Hassan finally freed the statue from the sand ...

Among the museums lending work are the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and Luxor Museum. Objects featured include a statue in quartzite of Tutankhamun dating from the 18th dynasty (1550–1295 BC ...