Luxor statue cache

[1] They were discovered in Luxor, beneath the solar court of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

The excavation was launched in 1989 under the authority of Mahammed el-Saghir, with routine maintenance by the Luxor antiquities inspectorate.

The Luxor cache was buried during the Roman conversion of the area into a military camp.

[2] Originally five statues were found at a three-foot depth below a covering layer of small stones; eventually 26 statues were uncovered with some being damaged prior to burial.

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