Egyptian archeologists have discovered two red granite statues in Luxor, one of Tutankhamun's grandfather Amenhotep III who reigned about 3,350 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said Tuesday. The second statue was of the ancient Egyptian figure Thoth, Zahi Hawass said. At four meters high, it is one of the biggest statues of the deity yet discovered. The statues, both more than 3,000 years old, were found at the funerary temple of Amenhotep III in Kom el-Hetan on Luxor's west bank. The pharaoh's funerary temple, the largest religious complex in ancient Egypt, was destroyed by floods. The Colossi of Memnon, two 18-meters-high stone statues of the pharaoh, are all that remain of the complex.
