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Home arrow Entertainment arrow Sphinx Alley gives Egypt huge open-air museum
Sphinx Alley gives Egypt huge open-air museum Print E-mail
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Governor of Luxor Samir Farag
Governor of Luxor Samir Farag
The governor of Egypt's Luxor Samir Farag reported on Sunday that Luxor is set to become one of the world's largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the "Sphinx Alley" is complete in March

 The project to restore the two-mile alley that links the grand temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the River Nile in Luxor has cost $45 million.

One of Egypt's great tourist attractions, Sphinx Alley, known as the Kebash Road, was originally built with 1,200 statues, with one side lined up with ram-headed sphinxes and the other with regular sphinxes with human heads.

The alley was built by Amenhotep III in the 12th century B.C.

Over the years, the alley was buried under sand.

 

 

 

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