Avenue of Sphinxes (Kebash Road) in Luxor
The Egyptian civilization started with an ancient governorate "The Luxor Governorate", which includes not only the city of Luxor but every place in the Luxor Governorate is a place that witnessed a very important part of our country's unique civilization.
Luxor Temple: One of the city's icons, with a magnificent courtyard of more than 2,000 square meters, more than 3300 years old, from the 14th century BC, and the courtyard of King Amenhotep III, who witnessed his reign prosperity, It was an unusual period of prosperity, very strong political and international relations, and building like it had never been seen before, and it built many monuments, especially in Luxor day tours.
By 1989 A very important archaeological hiding place was discovered. More than 20 statues of a king and a deity were buried here in the courtyard, and they are currently in the Luxor Museum.
The courtyard in the temple was the function of the ceremonies, so this place was chosen to be the ceremonial opening of Kebash road.
Among the celebrations that the ancient Egyptians celebrated here was the Feast of Opet.
The completion of the project to discover the "Kebash" road. The first statue discovered with a human head was discovered in front of the Luxor Temple on March 18, 1949, by an Egyptian archaeologist. From that time and for more than 70 years, Egyptian archaeologists have been working on this road. This project was not only underground but also a very important job above the ground.
Introducing Luxor in a new robe, it was very wide to open this road and connect between Luxor and Karnak because Luxor deserves the title of The Largest Open Museum World Wide, to all those who are responsible officially started from 2004 and this project stumbled in 2011, but the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in 2017 commissioned the engineering authority to finish this project. we excavated about 250 statues with a ram's head and 807 statues with a human head.
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