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Colossi of Memnon

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Colossi of Memnon

Name: Colossi of Memnon
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Location: Zillervalley, Tyrol, Austria

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Thomas🍀

October 4, 2018

Short, worthwhile photo stop on the way to the Valley of the Kings

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Andy

January 14, 2022

The Colossi of Memnon are two ancient Egyptian colossal statues from the 14th century BC. They are near the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes in what is now the city of Luxor. Originally, the Colossi of Memnon stood in front of a pylon marking the entrance to the temple of Amenhotep III, a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom.

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Yeti55

February 10, 2017

Actually, the statues represent a pharaoh, but they inspired the fancy of the Greeks so much that they wove their own story around it, which then became famous. Since then, the statues of Memnon Colossi have heard these tales of "sang" the right statue every morning as soon as the first sunbeams fell upon them (Memnon's mother Eos stroked her dead son and, with her tears as a morning dew, envied the earth and Memno's corpse answered with that song).
This song is no longer heard these days. The statue is too destroyed too

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Location: Zillervalley, Tyrol, Austria

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