FOX: A mysterious sphinx has been discovered during roadwork in the Egyptian city of Luxor.
Mohamed Abdel Aziz, director general of Luxor Antiquities, announced the find Sunday, according to Egypt Today. The sphinx was found at the site of a road connecting Luxor Temple and the Temple of Karnak, two vast ancient temple complexes on the east side of the Nile.
Archaeologists are now working to carefully lift the mysterious statue, Egypt Today reports. Officials say that, because of its location, the statue cannot be directly extracted from the ground.
While the famous Great Sphinx of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo is the best known, there are a number of smaller sphinx statues in Luxor.
Ancient Egypt continues to reveal its secrets. Archaeologists recently opened a ‘cursed’ ancient black granite sarcophagus. In a separate project, experts also unearthed a 2,200-year-old gold coin depicting the ancient King Ptolemy III, an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra.
Experts in Southern Egypt recently discovered an extremely rare marble head depicting the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. MORE
Look at it.
http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/c7a57b97-e72c-5389-94a2-bddd35438a9f/content-1533897956-sphinx-underground-karnak-1.jpg
This is like…. a Tijuana sphinx or something.
(insert appropriate sphincter joke here)
By the time the Archeologists are finished all of Luxor and Cairo will be dug up, these Artifact disoveries are becoming frequent with “Lidar” and other advancements.
I’m sure the biggest stumbling block is Archaeologists being confounded by pondering over whut gender it identified with…
Latest reports are that the Sphinx appears to be wearing a pussy hat and a ‘Peach Fody Fie’ button.
Shit, now the old sphinx will only be worth half as much…
Looks like another sensationalized, non story, sack of shit.
A few days ago there was a very interesting show on TV (natgeo maybe) dated 2017 detailing how by using Lidar surveys they had located 60,000 previously unknown Mayan structures: temples and castles, pyramids, interconnecting roads, crop fields. One of the conclusions was that the population was probably 30M not 2 million as previously believed. About half the population of Europe at that time, but in only 1/30th the area. Still lots of mysteries not yet revealed about man’s past.
Since they were built by black slaves can’t we all agree that they must be torn down?