Egyptian-German archaeological mission announced the discovery of foundations of the Temple of the Sun as well as blocks dating back to Khufu's reign at the open-air museum of Matariya, in Cairo’s Heliopolis.
Head of the Egyptian Antiquities sector in the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the head of the Egyptian side in the Egyptian-German mission Ayman El Ashmawy explained that a number of fragments of statues and sphinxes were discovered.