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New Ancient Sphinx Discovered in Egypt's Luxor

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Tourists are welcome to visit Al-Kabbash Road where a sphinx statue has been discovered. The sphinx statue remains in the ground since archaeologists are afraid to extract the sculpture, as a sharp change in temperature could adversely affect it.

A new sphinx statue was discovered during road construction works in the Egyptian city of Luxor, the Egypt Today portal reported, citing the general director of Luxor Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz.

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The statue was found by workers during the construction of the new Al-Kabbash Road connecting Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple. The ancient monument resembles the classic sphinx in Giza — a lion with a human head.

Four-wheel drive cars cross the sand dunes in the Egyptian western desert and the Bahariya Oasis, southwest of Cairo in picture taken May 15, 2015. Egyptian security forces killed 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and injured 10 by accident on Monday, mistaking a tourist convoy for militants they were chasing in the country's western desert, the ministry of interior said

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According to Aziz, the statue still remains in the ground because extracting the monument may cause it to collapse due to a sharp change in temperature.

In 2014, archeologists found in Luxor a tomb of an Egyptian brewer, Khonso-Im-Heb, who made beer and other drinks for rituals over 3,000 years ago. On the walls of the burial chamber, there were well-preserved paintings depicting scenes from the brewer's life.

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