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The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities annouced yesterday that archaeologists unearthed a massive red granite head of one Egypt’s most famous pharaohs Amenhotep III. The height of a person, Amenhotep’s granite head was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor.The archaeologists that discovered the head described it as the best preserved sculpture of Amenhotep III’s face found to date.

“Other statues have always had something broken: the tip of the nose, the face is eroded,” said Dr. Hourig Sourouzian, who has led the led the Egyptian-European expedition. “But here, from the tip of the crown to the chin, it is so beautifully carved and polished, nothing is broken.” Amenhotep III was the grandfather of the famed child-pharaoh Tutankhamun, he ruled from 1387-1348 B.C. at the height of Egypt’s New Kingdom and presided over a vast empire stretching from Nubia in the south to Syria in the north. The expedition unearthed a wealth of artifacts and statuary in the buried ruins. What do you think?