Fragments of sandstone sphinx statues of Hatshepsut from the excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1911-1932) were “rediscovered” recently in storage in Deir el-Bahari. The pieces (altogether 4500) have now been collected together, studied and recorded, the objective being to evaluate whether a reconstruction of any of them is possible. The project has been undertaken under the auspices of the Polish–Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission to the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari. The statues, which were all sculpted and painted, represented three different types of recumbent androsphinxes wearing either a khat-headdress, a nemes-headdress or a tripartite wig.