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The Colossi of Memnon (italic or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis.[1]

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  1. 75 relations: Achilles, Africa, Amenhotep III, Anatolia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian deities, Ancient Greece, Aswan, Brass, Cairo, Clipper, Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III, David Roberts (painter), Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, Description de l'Égypte, Dew, Duat, Early modern period, Earthquake, Edfu, Egyptology, El-Gabal el-Ahmar, Emperor of Ethiopia, Eos, Floodplain, Floruit, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Hapi (Nile god), Heidelberg University, Henrik Ibsen, Hero, Jean-Antoine Letronne, John Beasley Greene, Juvenal, Karnak, List of largest monoliths, Luxor, Lyre, Medinet Habu, Memnon, Mortuary temple, Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, Mutemwiya, Oracle, Oscar Wilde, Osiris, Pausanias (geographer), Peer Gynt, Pharaoh, Philostratus, ... Expand index (25 more) »

  2. Amenhotep III
  3. Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC
  4. Colossal statues in Egypt
  5. Stone sculptures
  6. Theban Necropolis
  7. Unidentified sounds

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Amenhotep III

Amenhotep III (jmn-ḥtp(.w),; "Amun is satisfied"), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great and Hellenized as Amenophis III, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Egyptian deities

Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Aswan

Aswan (also; ʾAswān; Ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ) is a city in Southern Egypt, and is the capital of the Aswan Governorate.

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Brass

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Clipper

A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed.

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Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III

The colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III is a granite head of the 18th Dynasty ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Colossi of Memnon and colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III are Amenhotep III and sculptures of ancient Egypt.

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David Roberts (painter)

David Roberts (24 October 179625 November 1864) was a Scottish painter.

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Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien

Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien (literally "Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia", where "Ethiopia" was then a synonym for Nubia) is a monumental work by Karl Richard Lepsius published in Prussia in 1849–1859.

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Description de l'Égypte

The Description de l'Égypte ("Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared in 1829, which aimed to comprehensively catalog all known aspects of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history.

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Dew

Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation.

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Duat

The Duat (dwꜣt, Egyptological pronunciation "do-aht"), also called Amenthes (translit) or Te (Tē), is the underworld in ancient Egyptian mythology.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Edfu

Edfu (bḥdt, إدفو,,; also spelt Idfu, or in modern French as Edfou) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately 60,000 people.

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Egyptology

Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek -λογία, -logia; علمالمصريات) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt.

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El-Gabal el-Ahmar

El-Gabal el-Ahmar (الجبل الأحمر) is located today within the boundaries of modern-day Cairo, in the area of Nasr City.

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Emperor of Ethiopia

The emperor of Ethiopia (nəgusä nägäst, "King of Kings"), also known as the Atse (ዐፄ, "emperor"), was the hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire, from at least the 13th century until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975.

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Eos

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos (Ionic and Homeric Greek Ἠώς Ēṓs, Attic Ἕως Héōs, "dawn", or; Aeolic Αὔως Aúōs, Doric Ἀώς Āṓs) is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and disperse the night.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Floruit

Floruit (abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Honourable between 1858 and 1898, then known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.

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Hapi (Nile god)

Hapi (Ancient Egyptian: ḥꜥpj) was the god of the annual flooding of the Nile in ancient Egyptian religion.

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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.

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Hero

A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.

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Jean-Antoine Letronne

Jean Antoine Letronne (25 January 1787 – 14 December 1848) was a French archaeologist.

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John Beasley Greene

John Beasley Greene (1832 – November 1856) was a French-born American Egyptologist and one of the earliest archaeological documentary photographers.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Karnak

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt.

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List of largest monoliths

This is a list of monoliths organized according to the size of the largest block of stone on the site.

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Luxor

Luxor (lit) is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes.

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Lyre

The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Medinet Habu

Medinet Habu (مدينة هابو;; (ⲧ)ϫⲏⲙⲉ, ϫⲏⲙⲏ, ϫⲉⲙⲉ, ϫⲉⲙⲏ, ϫⲏⲙⲓ|label. Colossi of Memnon and Medinet Habu are Theban Necropolis.

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Memnon

Memnon is a prominent heroic figure.

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Mortuary temple

Mortuary temples (or funerary temples) were temples that were erected adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, royal tombs in Ancient Egypt.

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Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III

The Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, also known as Kom el-Hettân, was built by the main architect Amenhotep, son of Hapu, for Pharaoh Amenhotep III during the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. Colossi of Memnon and Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III are Amenhotep III, buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC and Theban Necropolis.

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Mutemwiya

Mutemwiya (also written as Mutemwia, Mutemuya or Mutemweya) was a minor wife of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose IV, and the mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

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Oracle

An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD.

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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.

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Pharaoh

Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.

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Philostratus

Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (Φιλόστρατος; 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Quartzite

Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

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Ramesses II

Ramesses II (rꜥ-ms-sw), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was an Egyptian pharaoh.

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Ramesses III

Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt.

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Ramesseum

The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). Colossi of Memnon and Ramesseum are Theban Necropolis.

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Richard Pococke

Richard Pococke (19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765)Notes and Queries, p. 129.

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Roman emperor

The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.

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Rupert Gould

Rupert Thomas Gould (16 November 1890 – 5 October 1948) was a lieutenant-commander in the British Royal Navy noted for his contributions to horology (the science and study of timekeeping devices).

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Sailing card

A sailing card is a printed advertisement with information on a ship and its sailing dates, especially clipper ships.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Septimius Severus

Lucius Septimius Severus (11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was a Roman politician who served as emperor from 193 to 211.

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Statue

A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888.

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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia is a travelogue of 19th-century Palestine and the magnum opus of Scottish painter David Roberts.

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Theban Necropolis

The Theban Necropolis is a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (Luxor) in Upper Egypt.

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Thebes, Egypt

Thebes (طيبة, Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset (Arabic: وسط), was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about south of the Mediterranean.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.

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Throne

A throne is the seat of state of a potentate or dignitary, especially the seat occupied by a sovereign (or viceroy) on state occasions; or the seat occupied by a pope or bishop on ceremonial occasions.

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Tiye

Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of pharaoh Akhenaten and grandmother of pharaoh Tutankhamun; her parents were Yuya and Thuya.

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Trojan War

The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.

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V.

V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963.

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William de Wiveleslie Abney

Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney (24 July 1843 – 3 December 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer.

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See also

Amenhotep III

Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC

Colossal statues in Egypt

Stone sculptures

Theban Necropolis

Unidentified sounds

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossi_of_Memnon

Also known as Colossus of Memnon, Colossuses of Memnon, Singing Memnon, Statues of Memnon.

, Pliny the Elder, Quartzite, Ramesses II, Ramesses III, Ramesseum, Richard Pococke, Roman emperor, Rupert Gould, Sailing card, Sandstone, Science (journal), Septimius Severus, Statue, Strabo, Tacitus, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, Theban Necropolis, Thebes, Egypt, Thomas Pynchon, Throne, Tiye, Trojan War, V., William de Wiveleslie Abney.