Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth Twelve More Sphinx Statues Along the Ancient Avenue

CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities department says archaeologists have unearthed 12 more sphinx statues along the ancient avenue connecting Luxor and Karnak temples.  The discovery was made in a newly excavated section of the Avenue of the Sphinxes, most of which is buried beneath the modern city of Luxor in southern Egypt.  An unearthed sphinx statue of Pharaoh Nectanebo I, on the Avenue of the Sphinxes on a sandstone section of a road that dates back from 380-362 B.C., at the city [...]