Granite Ptolemaic king statue found
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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old granite statue of a Ptolemaic-era king at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria.
The head of the Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, says the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV.
The archeology team, led by Hawass and Dominican archeologist Kathleen Martinez, has spent the last five years trying to locate Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s final resting place.
The archeologists say they also have discovered the original entrance to the temple of Taposiris Magna on its western side. They say there is evidence the entrance to the temple was lined with a series of sphinx statues similar to those of the pharaonic era.
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