Egypts antiquities ministry denies that the rectangular leg statue of god Amun-Re at Karnak Temple has been restored recently, saying an image circulating showing it with cement legs is 50 years old ...

Researchers found the statues south of Karnak Temple, which was built between 4,000 and 2,000 years ago and is largely dedicated to Amun-Ra, reports Owen Jarus for Live Science.

Object Details Provenance Found at Memphis [1] To 1908 Michel Casira, Cairo, Egypt, to 1908 [2] From 1908 to 1919 Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Michel Casira in 1908 [3] From 1920 ...

Excavation at the Karnak temple found a 2,600-year-old pot filled with gold jewelry, beads, and statues. The statues of Egyptian gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu may have been worn as amulets.

Amun was the highest god in Thebes, while Mut was his wife or consort and a divine mother. Khonsu, their son, was the god of the moon and is often depicted in his youth.

The mission also found three fairly well-preserved statues of the powerful goddess Sakhmet (also spelled Sekhmet), who is portrayed as having the head of a lion on the body of a woman. The Sakhmet ...

The discovery at a cemetery in Saqqara contained statues of the gods Anubis, Amun, Min, Osiris, Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and Hathor along with a headless statue of the architect Imhotep, who built ...

Amun was the highest god in Thebes, while Mut was his wife or consort and a divine mother. Khonsu, their son, was the god of the moon and is often depicted in his youth.