HALF of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland have said.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS found what may be a trove of 3,400-year-old statues on the west bank of the ancient temple city, Luxor, said the head of Egypt’s antiquities department yesterday.

Archaeologists have unearthed the upper part of a double limestone statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture said today.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the massive head of one Egypt’s most famous pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced.

AN Egyptian-German archaeological team has discovered 17 statues of Sekhmet, an ancient Egyptian goddess with the head of a lioness and the body of a woman.