After revealing the Pharaoh’s face, Morares observed that it differed significantly from the god-like features depicted in statues. “Many mummies, such as Amenhotep I, show a retrognathism or ...

The Colossi of Memnon, a pair of statues each depicting the seated Amenhotep III (r. ca. 1390–1352 B.C.), once stood at the first pylon, or gateway, of the pharaoh’s enormous mortuary temple ...

The other statue actually represented the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. In early Egyptology, all statues of the sort were referred to as "Memnons." The addition of "younger" was because it was ...

This truly colossal statue and its companion are all that remains of a huge mortuary temple built by the pharaoh Amenhotep III (Amenophis) in the 14th century B.C. The temple, which the pair of ...

Amenhotep III’s body was found in 1898 hidden ... bent across her chest—interpreted as a queen’s burial pose. Her statue from the temple at Karnak displays a similarly bent left arm.