21st November 2010
Avenue of Sphinx Update
Well! I hope you don’t get too bored with too much information on the Avenue of Sphinx. As you know, this is one of the biggest on going changes here in Luxor. I wonder if many of you have ventured to this side of the Karnak Temple; I doubt it, I never see tourists here. They have and are still demolishing so many buildings in this area, and that is sad in itself, but what is nice for me, is that part of the Sphinxes are still buried on one side of the street while they have unearthed many on the other side. On the side along the houses and the odd shop, you can see the sphinxes at street level, on the pavement, knowing that their plinths are another ten feet below. These sphinxes are worn, broken and dirty where I suppose the children have played around them, climbed on them and so on over many many years. Its amazing to see the street lamps aside the sphinxes. The sphinxes are on the door steps of the houses. This will all change in the near future as they continue the unearthing of the sphinxes, finishing at the Temple itself. All these houses will have gone by then. I had tea at one of these houses today.
Avenue of Sphinx Update
Well! I hope you don’t get too bored with too much information on the Avenue of Sphinx. As you know, this is one of the biggest on going changes here in Luxor. I wonder if many of you have ventured to this side of the Karnak Temple; I doubt it, I never see tourists here. They have and are still demolishing so many buildings in this area, and that is sad in itself, but what is nice for me, is that part of the Sphinxes are still buried on one side of the street while they have unearthed many on the other side. On the side along the houses and the odd shop, you can see the sphinxes at street level, on the pavement, knowing that their plinths are another ten feet below. These sphinxes are worn, broken and dirty where I suppose the children have played around them, climbed on them and so on over many many years. Its amazing to see the street lamps aside the sphinxes. The sphinxes are on the door steps of the houses. This will all change in the near future as they continue the unearthing of the sphinxes, finishing at the Temple itself. All these houses will have gone by then. I had tea at one of these houses today.