An Egyptian archaeological mission discovered a sphinx statue inside a Roman-era limestone cabin that was excavated in the south of the country. Led by Dr Mamdouh El Damaty, a former antiquities minister and a professor of archaeology at Cairo’s Ain Shams University, the mission was working east of Dendera Temple in the southern province of Qena. Found within the two-storey cabin was a large water basin made of red brick and coated with mortar. After preliminary dating, the mission determined it was from the Byzantine period.
