Tuesday, January 24, 2006

This just in Several stories out on the finding of a statue of Queen Tiy, mother of Akhenaten:

US archaeologists find statue of Akhenaten's mother

A team of US archeologists have discovered a statue depicting Pharaoh Akhenaten's mother, Queen Tiy, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities told AFP.

The team from John Hopkins University found the statue near those of Tiy's husband Amenhotep III in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, the council's Sabri Abdel Aziz said.

The black granite statue measuring 4.5 feet in height and 17 inches in width was found in good condition but the feet are missing, he added.


Official Egyptian givernment announcement here. (Supposedly)