Download - Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt
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Connecting these 2 Magnificent Temple areas is the Avenue of the Sphinxes.
It is 3 km long and contained about 2000 Sphinx statues that line each side of the road!
Luxor Temple
Karnak Temple Complex with the
Temple of Amun
Ram-headed sphinxesThe mythical lion-bodied sphinx is associated with the king and the Sun god. Those with ram heads, known as criosphinxes, are linked with Amun, chief deity of the Thebes region.
Temple of Ramses II and Nefertari in their present location.
The statue of Ramses lights up on his birthday and his coronation day as it
has every year for 3200 years.
How the temple would
have looked when it was
first built.