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Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt. Some not so typical images of the Great Sphinx. Temple of Hatshepsut. Images of the inside of the Temple of Hatshepsut. The Tomb of Nefertari. The Layout of the Tomb of Nefertari. Luxor Temple. Karnak Temple Complex with the
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Luxor Temple Karnak Temple Complex with the Temple of Amun 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!
Ram-headed sphinxes The 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.
How the temple would have looked when it was first built. The statue of Ramses lights up on his birthday and his coronation day as it has every year for 3200 years.