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General Category => World News => Topic started by: flowers on March 24, 2014, 08:16:23 pm

Title: Two more colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt
Post by: flowers on March 24, 2014, 08:16:23 pm

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/two-more-colossal-pharaoh-statues-unveiled-in-egypt-20140324-35cee.html

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Archaeologists on Sunday unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt's famed temple city of Luxor, adding to an existing pair of world-renowned tourist attractions.

The two monoliths in red quartzite were raised at what European and Egyptian archaeologists said were their original sites in the funerary temple of the king, on the west bank of the Nile.

The temple is already famous for its existing 3,400-year-old Memnon colossi - twin statues of Amenhotep III whose reign archaeologists say marked the political and cultural zenith of ancient Egyptian civilisation.

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