Researchers say they will continue to work to restore the temple as well as the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic stone statues of Amenhotep III that mark the entrance to the funerary complex and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently rediscovered two sphinxes that guarded the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, the grandfather ... excavations unearthed the stone bases of several columns ...

King Amenhotep III was a pharaoh who ruled Egypt around ... The project to restore the temple and the Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of the pharaoh, began in 1998 under the ...

To date, the team has reconstructed part of the peristyle court, which was once adorned with two huge stone stelas recording Amenhotep III’s accomplishments, as well as dozens of statues of the ...

The water carries salts that eat away at stone, particularly more porous ... Nearby, an alabaster statue of a crocodile and two more statues of Amenhotep III, also in alabaster, wait to be cleaned.

A commemorative stone scarab issued by Amenhotep III ... and floods from the Nile would further damage it. Two huge statues of Amenhotep III still sit at the site’s old entrance, as ...

Amenhotep III chose to break with convention by marrying Tiy, a commoner. He announced the news on a stone scarab - a small ... Tiy led the pharaoh to build two huge temples in the south, by ...

Cicero Moraes, the Brazilian graphics expert who also recreated the looks of descendant Amenhotep III, noted that his ancestor ... to have lasted between two to three decades as he led Egypt ...

Scientists put a face to a name after reconstructing the countenance of Tutankhamun’s grandfather Amenhotep III, marking the first time the iconic figure’s true likeness had been recreated in ...

Among the most iconic monuments created in Amenhotep III’s honor was his memorial temple at Kom el-Hettan, which is guarded by two enormous statues known as the Colossi of Memnon. However ...

Some of ancient Egypt's biggest monuments were constructed during the reign of Amenhotep III during the 18th Dynasty ... The Colossi of Memnon, two 18m stone statues of the pharaoh, are all ...