Egypt
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With a good b&w photograph of what the avenue of sphinxes looked before building started to buiilt around it.
- 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
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...
- In The Field: Sphinx-lined Alley Hints At Wealth Of Egypt's Lost Empires
Egypt State Information Service In an important step to implement the plan for developing Luxor over the coming 30 years and turn it into an international archaeological open museum. Mr. Farouk Hosni Minister of Culture stressed that the development project...
Egypt
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 - but the project's implementation has drawn criticism from displaced residents. Archaeologists are working to restore a processional path between the Luxor and Karnak temples that lay buried for centuries beneath soil and urban sprawl.
But many locals, especially low-income families, claim the scheme is a form of slum-clearance in disguise, aimed at freeing land for lucrative, upmarket hotel development.
The 2.7-kilometre "Avenue of Sphinxes" was built by Pharaoh Amenhotep III nearly 3,500 years ago, and took its final form under Nectanebo I in the fourth century BC. More than 1,300 stone sphinxes lined the paved road, but it fell into disuse in the late Roman era.
Nearly half of the sphinxes have been recovered since excavations began three years ago.
- 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
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...
- In The Field: Sphinx-lined Alley Hints At Wealth Of Egypt's Lost Empires
Egypt State Information Service In an important step to implement the plan for developing Luxor over the coming 30 years and turn it into an international archaeological open museum. Mr. Farouk Hosni Minister of Culture stressed that the development project...