Monument · Egypt
Colossi of Memnon
تمثالا ممنون
Twin colossal statues of Amenhotep III on Luxor's west bank, fronting the site of his destroyed memorial temple.
Where it is
25.7205, 32.6104
Why go
Two colossal seated figures of Amenhotep III stand on Luxor’s west bank in front of the site of his ‘Temple of Millions of Years’, which an ancient earthquake brought down. Since 1998 an Egyptian–German project has been conserving the colossi and piecing the temple back together. Its finds include sphinxes of the king roughly eight metres long, granite busts of Sekhmet and reliefs of the Heb-sed jubilee, which are being returned to their original positions. The recovered pieces are being prepared for reinstallation in their original places in the temple.
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