Archaeologists working at the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt, have uncovered the remains of a fifth century Coptic church and a Nilometer. The church was built with limestone blocks originally belonging to the Ptolemaic and Roman temples that once stretched along the Avenue. The blocks are well preserved, with many of them bearing depictions of Ptolemaic and Roman kings offering sacrifices to ancient Egyptian gods.

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a colossal statue head of Amenhotep III. The red granite head, part of a larger 3,000 year-old statue, was discovered at the site of the pharaoh's funerary temple in Luxor, Egypt's culture ministry said in a statement.

Excavations on part of an ancient 2.7km avenue of sphinxes that once linked temples in Luxor and Karnak should be completed in March, Egypt's antiquities chief said. Archaeologists have so far uncovered 65 of the 1 350 sphinxes that lined a path between temples during the time of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

A Spanish mission working at Dra Abu El-Naga on the West Bank at Luxor has discovered a second, painted burial chamber in the tomb of Djehuty (TT11). The Supreme Council of Antiquities says five golden earrings and two rings were found in the tomb of Djehuty, the head of the treasury under Hatshepsut. See also: http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-discovery-tomb-djehuty-tt...

A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists have discovered two statues of King Amenhotep III. Chief Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawaas said in a statement the first statute was made of black granite, while the second depicts the king in the shape of a Sphinx.

Belgian archaeologists have rediscovered an ancient Egyptian tomb that had been lost for decades under sand. In 1880 Swedish Egyptologist Karl Piehl uncovered the tomb of Amenhotep, the deputy seal-bearer of Pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The tomb consists of an enclosure and a large hall divided into two parts by six columns. Laurent Bavay, the head of the Belgian team, said most of the inscriptions on the walls of the tomb were damaged.

Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a statue of pharaoh and a bust of pharaoh Hatshepsut in the southern city of Luxor, the state MENA news agency reported.

Article by S. Hawass about work carried out at the tomb of Seti I and the search for the tomb of Ramesses VIII.

Artefacts immersed in the Nile at Aswan and a 19th-Dynasty funerary collection in Luxor are the most recent discoveries in Egypt.

Next year the site of the Colossi of Memnon will be worked over completely: Two giant statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III will be erected just a hundred metres (328 feet) behind the two existing colossi that mark the entrance to the mortuary temple. Another two statues, still half-buried, will also be returned to their former upright position in the years to come.