In the excavations at a temple dedicated to the goddess Mui-another of the names of Isis, located in the monumental complex of Luxor, the former Leben, 726 kilometres south of Cairo, a team of archaeologists led by Bryan Betsi , Of the Johns Hopkins University, in Ballimore. U.S. has carried out an unexpected finding: the statue of a queen of the XVIII Pharaonic dynasty (1554 to 1304 BC).The image, according to Bryan, is 3,400 years old and representing Queen Tiye, wife of Amenholep III, ninth pharaoh of this dynasty and mother of Akhenaten.
The sculpture, a figure carved in black granite at actual size, has a height of 1.60 meters and 44 centimeters wide.
Le missing feet and one arm, and appears with a crown that presents a series of inscriptions carved in hieroglyphics alphabet, which can read the name of her husband.
On his face takes three cobras, symbols of resurrection and new life, and a hawk, representing the god Horus. On his back jeroglíficas there are inscriptions that have not yet been decrypted.
The curious design of the statue, unknown until now, is what makes the discovery is extraordinary.
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