EGYPTIAN archeologists have discovered a 3000-year-old temple honoring the Pharaonic-era sun God Horus, in the first such find in the northern Sinai, the antiquities authorities said on Monday. Black granite and sandstone statuettes of gods and people were found inside the temple which dates from the New Kingdom (1567-1065 BC), the Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement. Horus, son of Isis and Osiris, is normally portrayed as a one-eyed falcon or sun-dial, but the council did not disclose which statuettes were found. The temple, whose dry-stone walls are from four metres to 10 metres thick, spans a surface area of 2400 square metres and houses a dozen rooms, they added. The discovery defines the location of Tharo, a fortified city built by the ancient Egyptians at the eastern entrance to the route armies took from Egypt to the land of Canaan.