New Large Sphinx Still Embedded In Soil Discovered In Luxor, Egypt

AncientPages.com - A new large sphinx has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt. The ancient statue has a "lion's body with a human head". According to Egyptian officials, the ministry is currently working on lifting the statue because due to the nature of the environment it is in, it cannot be extracted directly from its place.

The sphinx’s remains are still embedded in soil.

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The sphinx, dating to 2500 B. C and the reign of the Pharaoh Kafre in Egypt was found when workers accidentally dug up the renowned artifact during road works.

Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani welcomes the public to the visit Al-Kabbash road to see the statue.

Images from the site show unearthed parts of the statue, which experts say has a human head and lion’s body. Credit: Ministry of Antiquities

“In the same context, Bassam al-Shamma, a researcher in Egyptology, remarked that the Sphinx’s discovery is expected as several sphinx statues are found across Luxor such as the sphinx statues for King Aymanhotb III and Thutmose IV,“ Egypt Today reports.

Archaeologists photographed the find alongside a meter-long measuring stick to give an idea of the sphinx’s size, although much of the statue remains buried in sand. Credit: Ministry of Antiquities

Meanwhile, the quest for the second “real” sphinx continues.  As Ancient Pages previously reported, historians, Gerry Cannon and Malcolm Hutton are convinced the Great Sphinx of Giza had a twin and it may have been destroyed by lightning.

The second sphinx was a female and the statue "disappeared" under unexplained circumstances. Cannon claims, however, that he managed to find the trail of the lost statue, analyzing the construction of the area around the pyramids.

Buried for thousands of years, the second sphinx is located on a second mound alongside the male sphinx, standing guard in front of one of the Great Pyramids.

“The Sphinx had to have been carved when there was no sand there. You can’t carve a rock when it’s under sand. When it was not under sand was about 12,000 years ago and the Egyptians weren’t there,” Cannon said.

Cannon also added, there is little archaeological interest in finding the twin sphinx.

In an interview with Express.UK, Cannon said, “It was as if every living Egyptologist had lost interest in this wonderful underground metropolis, for all their articles during the ensuing years are centred more on tombs of queens and shafts that had been sunk deep into the ground to burial tombs.
Nobody knows what’s under there, no one has been able to investigate.

They’re frightened that if they find stuff under there, it’s going to blow all their books and all their history out of the window.

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They started to investigate it but then they stopped. So they must have known there’s stuff there but they’re worried.

Once it’s proven that all their history is wrong, all their books they’ve written will be thrown out. If they’ve found stuff, they aren’t show it.

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There are entrances, there are photographs that show it. There’s this hole in the top of the Sphinx, on its head.

Why should it be there? It goes down about 8-10 feet and then it goes off into passages.

They’ve never taken cameras down there - or they have and they don’t want to show it.“

As mentioned earlier on Ancient Pages, “the theory that there was once second sphinx at Giza is not so crazy at all. Archaeological discoveries offer evidence sphinxes do come in pairs. Without an open-minded approach we can never solve the riddle of the twin sphinx. At present times, the possible existence of a second unknown sphinx remains an unsolved ancient mystery.”

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