Egypt
El Tiempo (Francisco Carrion)
Rough translation:
- In The Pharaohs' Footsteps
Al Ahram Weekly With photos. Inspection of the last phase of the Avenue of the Sphinxes development project and the discovery of the missing parts of the colossal double statue of the 18th-Dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, now on...
- More Re Avenue Of Sphinxes Discoveries
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) TWELVE sphinx statues from the reign of the 30th- Dynasty Pharaoh Nectanebo I were unearthed last week in Luxor, reports Nevine El-Aref. Archaeologists have unearthed a set of 12 limestone sphinx statues near the road...
- Ancient Road Uncovered In Luxor
drhawass.com Press Release, with photos Mr. Farouk Hosny, Minister of Culture, announces that the expedition of the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the Avenue of the Sphinxes found today twelve new sphinx statues from the reign of Nectanebo I (380-362...
- More Re Avenue Of Sphinxes, Luxor
Earth Times With a good b&w photograph of what the avenue of sphinxes looked before building started to buiilt around it. An ancient sphinx-lined avenue that once connected two of Egypt's grandest temples will open to the public this month -...
- More Re Avenue Of Sphinxes, Luxor
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The magnificent aspect of the Avenue of Sphinxes that once connected the temples of Luxor and Karnak, where priests, royalty and the pious walked in procession to celebrate the Opet festival, is being rekindled. Many of...
Egypt
More on issues regarding the Avenue of Sphinxes, Luxor
El Tiempo (Francisco Carrion)
Las casas de cientos de familias pobres quedarán pronto reducidas a escombros en Luxor por un faraónico plan que trata de recuperar una avenida de esfinges que unía los templos de la mítica Tebas.
"Mi familia ya ha perdido una casa y pronto demolerán la que nos queda", dijo Mustafa, un hombre de 51 años vestido con una túnica blanca o "galabiya", a escasos metros de su vivienda y rodeado por los escombros de las primeras demoliciones.
La avenida, de unos 2.700 metros de largo y 70 de ancho, que unía los templos de Luxor y Karnak, permaneció sepultada durante siglos, pero ahora el Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades egipcias se propuso recuperar esta ruta sagrada, la más grande construida en el mundo antiguo.
Los primeros derribos tuvieron lugar a principios de este año y, desde entonces, el trabajo de máquinas y obreros ha hecho emerger partes de una vía construida inicialmente por Amenhotep III (1372-1410 a.C.) y recompuesta por Nectanebo I (380-362 a.C.).
Rough translation:
The homes of hundreds of poor families will soon be reduced to rubble by a plan to recover an avenue of sphinxes that linked the temples of Luxor. "My family has already lost a house and soon they will demolish what is left," said Mustafa, a 51 year old man wearing a white robe, a few meters from his home and surrounded by the rubble of the first stage of demolition. The Avenue, about 2700 meters long and 70 wide, linking the temples of Luxor and Karnak, remained buried for centuries but now the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities has begun to recover this sacred route, the largest built in the world old. The first phase of demolition took place earlier this year and since then machines and workers have revealed parts of the avenue originally built by Amenhotep III (1372-1410 BC) and restored by Nectanebo I (380-362 BC) .
- In The Pharaohs' Footsteps
Al Ahram Weekly With photos. Inspection of the last phase of the Avenue of the Sphinxes development project and the discovery of the missing parts of the colossal double statue of the 18th-Dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, now on...
- More Re Avenue Of Sphinxes Discoveries
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) TWELVE sphinx statues from the reign of the 30th- Dynasty Pharaoh Nectanebo I were unearthed last week in Luxor, reports Nevine El-Aref. Archaeologists have unearthed a set of 12 limestone sphinx statues near the road...
- Ancient Road Uncovered In Luxor
drhawass.com Press Release, with photos Mr. Farouk Hosny, Minister of Culture, announces that the expedition of the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the Avenue of the Sphinxes found today twelve new sphinx statues from the reign of Nectanebo I (380-362...
- More Re Avenue Of Sphinxes, Luxor
Earth Times With a good b&w photograph of what the avenue of sphinxes looked before building started to buiilt around it. An ancient sphinx-lined avenue that once connected two of Egypt's grandest temples will open to the public this month -...
- More Re Avenue Of Sphinxes, Luxor
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The magnificent aspect of the Avenue of Sphinxes that once connected the temples of Luxor and Karnak, where priests, royalty and the pious walked in procession to celebrate the Opet festival, is being rekindled. Many of...