건설공사 중 고대 이집트 스핑크스 발견 VIDEO: Ancient Egyptian sphinx discovered during road construction between ancient temples

Ancient Egyptian sphinx discovered during road construction between ancient temples

Published time: 7 Aug, 2018 11:38

An Egyptian infrastructure project has been halted after construction workers found a sphinx-like statue during roadworks between the ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor.

Workers at the site were said to have found a “lion’s body with a human head” by the area’s Director General of Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz. News website Youm reported that the statue could not yet be lifted above ground “due to the nature of the environment it is in.” However, national heritage chief Khaled al Anani encouraged people to visit the area to see the discovery.

(File photo) © Tara Todras-Whitehill / Reuters

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건설공사 중 고대 이집트 스핑크스 발견 이집트 카르낙과 룩소르 간의 도로공사 중에 고대 이집트 스핑크스와 흡사한 동상이 발견됐다 발견 이후 공사는 중지됐다. 건설근로자에 의하면 현장관리자는 "사람 머리를 가진 사자의 몸"을 발견했다고 들었다고 말했다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

The temple complexes of Karnak and Luxor stand within the ancient city of Thebes and date back to around 1400 BCE. The first Luxor excavations began at the site in 1884, leading to a number of significant discoveries until around 1960 when excavation work ceased.

It is thought that the sphinx is a symbol of royalty in ancient Egypt. Many pharaohs had their heads carved into statues for their tombs to mark their relationship with the solar deity Sekhmet, a lioness. The most famous sphinx is found at Giza, adjacent to the Great Pyramids.

The latest discovery in the Luxor area took place in 2014, when archeologists unearthed the tomb of an Egyptian beer brewer, who lived 3200 years ago.

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