COLOSSI OF MEMNON

With White Bird Travel, you will have an appointment with one of the most famous attractions in Luxor. The Colossi of Memnon, which belongs to Amenhotep III, these statues were standing in front of the first pylon of the Temple of King Amenhotep III and was erected between 1390 B.C. and 1353 B.C. and was 100 m. wide and 600 m. long. The Temple itself was used as a quarry by Merenptah son of Ramses II in the surrounding buildings, the remains of the temple was regularly distributed by Nile flood, any way this temple was built from sand stone with the floor covered with silver and the doors with Electrum (alloy made out from silver and gold)  Therefore, when you go to Luxor, do not hesitate to visit the Colossi of Mamnon, where you will find the Bright statues stand on an open area with an original height of 21.3 m. including the pedestal , the statues has been damaged and cracked a long time ago in 27 B.C. in an earthquake . However, these two statues are still standing and date back thousands of years, highlighting the greatness of the temple Pharaonic antiquities.

The colossi became famous in the roman period because it was said to sing. It is clear to everyone who witnessed it that the colossi suffered significant damage in its construction; Greek historians said that both statues sing with the time of sunrise. Theories pointed this to expansion of the stone when it was warmed by the sun in the morning and contractions in the evening or the wind reverberating through the cracks, it was restored by the Roman Emperor Semptimius Severus in 193-211 A.D. and corrected the fault and they have been silent ever since. And then during their visit to Egypt they wrote some of the phenomenon on the pedestal and leg of the statue, but there were a lot of people who felt weird when they read this phenomenon.