A team of French archaeologists have discovered a statue of a pharaoh during their excavations at a temple site in Upper Egypt, the ministry of antiquities announced on Wednesday. The black granite statue, 1.25 metres in height and missing its head, was found in the temple of Monthu, an ancient Egyptian god of war, in Luxor. The ministry said that its style and the carving techniques used suggest that it dates back to Egypt’s New Kingdom, thought to have existed between approximately 1550 and 1070 BC.