Egyptologists have discovered a statue of Queen Ti, wife of one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and grandmother to the boy-king Tutankhamun, at an ancient temple in Luxor, an Egyptian antiquities official said on Tuesday.

The official said the roughly 3,400 year-old statue was uniquely well preserved. Ti's husband, Amenhotep III, presided over an era which saw a renaissance in Egyptian art...

... Cartouches of a later king also on the statue indicated it may have been re-used about 300 years later by a 21st dynasty ruler.

Egyptologists find statue of Tutankhamun's grandmother, Reuters via Yahoo! News, USA, January 24, 2006.

cf. Statue of wife of Amenhotep III found in Luxor, State Information Service, Egypt, January 24, 2006.

The Egyptian ambassador in the Hague Ahmed Fathallah will on Monday offer a statue representing the Pharaonic god of justice to the international Court of Justice (ICJ) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its establishment, sources at the Egyptian embassy said on Sunday.

The head of the court will receive the statue in a ceremony to be attended by all members of the court including Egyptian judge Nabil al Arabi.

Egypt offers ICJ Pharaonic statue, State Information Service, Egypt, January 22, 2006.

It's been a few decades since a collection of relics from the dynasty of Egypt's King Tutankhamun first visited the United States. Tickets go on sale today for the latest appearance of the exhibit, now on its second tour of America, at The Field Museum in Chicago.

Opening May 26 [2006] and running through Jan. 1, 2007, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" includes more than 130 artefacts from Tut's tomb and other royals. Many of the items, estimated to be between 3,000 and 3,500 years old, have never been seen outside Egypt. The current exhibit, which made its debut last year in Los Angeles, will include a golden diadem that circled Tut's head in life and death, a miniature coffin that held his mummified liver, his child-size chair and footrest, recent CT images of Tut's mummy and a new forensic reconstruction of the boy king.

A record 1.3 million people toured the exhibit during its 1977 stop at the Chicago museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive. The current exhibit, which drew nearly one million people from June through November in Los Angeles, now is in Fort Lauderdale, [Florida], and heads to Philadelphia after Chicago.

Want to go? Ticket sales begin at 10 a.m. EST and are available by calling (312) 922-9410 or on the Web at www.fieldmuseum.org. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and students with ID, and $16 for children age 4 to 11 and include general museum admission.

Tickets for Tut exhibit on sale, Indianapolis Star, Indiana, USA, January 24, 2006.

Egyptian antiquity officials announced Monday the discovery near the southern city of Luxor of a statue believed to be of a queen who was the mother of the pharaoh that shifted the kingdom towards monotheism.

Queen Tiye, the wife of 18th dynasty (ca. 1539 – 1292 BC) King Amenhotep III and the mother of Akhenaten, was immortalized in a 1.6- metre black granite statue discovered during work just outside of Luxor at the Temple of Mut by an archaeological mission from Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore in the US.

Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass described the statue as being generally well-preserved although missing one arm and both lower legs...

Ancient 1.6-metre granite statue of Egyptian queen found in Luxor, Monster & Critics, UK, January 23, 2006.

A couple of good photos with this one.

A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Monday.

The statue, mostly intact, was found under a statue of Amenhotep III in the sprawling Karnak Temple in Luxor, which was a royal city in ancient Egypt...

Temple gives up statue of ancient Egyptian queen, AP via CNN, USA, January 24, 2006.

cf. Team Unearths Statue of Egypt's Queen Ti, AP via Springfield News-Leader, Missouri, USA, January 24, 2006.

Yesterday's AFP article — US archaeologists find statue of Akhenaten's mother — has a picture.