During routine excavation work at the site of the King Amenhotep III funerary temple on Luxor’s west bank an Egyptian excavation mission unearthed a statue of the king. Thirteen metres in height, the King Amenhotep III statue consists of seven huge quartzite blocks. The statue is without its head.

Egyptian archaeologists have found part of a 3,400-year-old double statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III together with the falcon-headed sun god Ra-Harekhti. The red granite upper half of the statue was found at the site of Amenhotep III's funerary temple.

A red granite colossus of Thoth was unearthed at the northwestern side of King Amenhotep III’s funerary temple on the west bank of Luxor. Afifi Rohayem, the assistant of the mission’s director, said that the site could contain an avenue of Thoth statues that once outlined the original path leading to the temple.

Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced today that the tomb of Haremhab, in the Valley of the King’s on Luxor’s West Bank, has been reopened following the installation of state-of-the-art equipment to control the rate of humidity within. He added that this tomb is the first to have such technology installed in an attempt to reduce and control the rate of humidity and heat, which has affected the tomb’s wall paintings in the past, leading to its original closure.

An 18th Dynasty tomb (1570-1315 BC) has been found in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga, on Luxor's west bank. The newly discovered tomb belongs to the Supervisor of Hunters, Amun-em-Opet, and that it dates to shortly before the reign of King Akhenaten. The entrances to two further undecorated tombs have also been found to the north-west of this tomb.

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 colossal statue of Amenhotep III has been raised and given back his head. The red quartzite statue, one of a set that stood around the courtyard of his funerary temple at Kom el-Hettan, near Luxor, fell centuries ago. In the early 19th century the British collector Henry Salt acquired its head, together with a second head from the same site, and both finished up in the British Museum.

Historic Qurna on the Theban necropolis is no more, but the reputation of its inhabitants as bandits and thieves lingers on and the site lacks attention. Apart from a few of the most decorative and brightly-decorated mud-brick houses, most of the homes belonging to the people, known as Qurnawis, have been demolished.