The road was uncovered over decades in the ancient city of Thebes.
The walkway connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple in the ancient city of Thebes.Egypt on Thursday opened to the public a 3,000-year-old sphinx-filled avenue in the Southern city of Luxor to great fanfare, having wrapped up restoration works that took over seven decades to complete.
With President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and his wife in attendance, officials said the event intended to showcase Luxor, a monument-rich city that once served as Egypt's capital, then called Thebes, as the"biggest open museum in the world."Avenue of sphinxes in front of the 1st pylon in Karnak, Egypt, 1900.
The statues are divided into three shapes, the first being a body of a lion with a ram's head that was erected over a nearly 1,000-foot area between the Karnak Temple and the Precinct of Mut during the reign of New Kingdom ruler Tutankhamen, famously known as King Tut.Avenue of Sphinxes, and the Temple of Amun entrance, Luxor, Ancient Thebes, Egypt.
The festival primarily involved a procession in which shrines of the"triad of deities" -- supreme god Amun-Re, his consort Mut and their son Khonsu -- were paraded by priests on wooden barques from Karnak to Luxor in a symbolic recreation of their marriage. The festive atmosphere stood in stark contrast to an eerily quiet morning in Luxor. Most shops were shuttered and streets seemed to empty only a few hours before the event began.
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