About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained traces of red. It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is ...

although it actually depicted the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III; and in early Egyptology, all such statues were called "Memnons." The term "younger" was used to differentiate it from others ...

In addition, the team found numerous pottery tools and shards. Ushabti statues were figurines used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices that were placed in tombs in the belief that they would ...

The name "Memnon" resulted from confusion over Greek inscriptions on a similar statue that led 19th-century Egyptologists to ...