It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt ... a mythical Greek king of that name. The other statue actually represented the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. In early Egyptology, all statues of the ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

which became not only the first stone-sculpted statues to represent an Egyptian pharaoh but also the oldest to depict a historical figure. One statue is made of limestone and the other of schist. Both ...

What it tells us about the past: This marble statuette depicts a dwarf-dancer, which was a common motif in ancient Mediterranean ... the Macedonian king's death. But dwarves in Egyptian culture ...

Zahi Hawass, a former Egyptian minister ... The bust was not the only royal statue that archaeologists discovered at the site. The team also unearthed a statue of a king wearing a headdress ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra ... alongside a ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian ... bust of a king wearing ...