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Published: 2011-09-24 15:50:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 422; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.Taken with Olympus OM 4 on fuji slide film 1985
Scanned and digitised
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Did the faces just wear with time, were vandalized or taken by dumb European collectors?
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I believe most of the Damage was caused by earthquakes
"In 27 BC, a large earthquake reportedly shattered the eastern colossus, collapsing it from the waist up and cracking the lower half"
"The statues are made from blocks of quartzite sandstone which was stone quarried at el-Gabal el-Ahmar (near modern-day Cairo) and transported 675 km (420 miles) overland to Thebes. (They are too heavy to have been transported upstream on the Nile.) The blocks used by later Roman engineers to reconstruct the eastern colossus may have come from Edfu (north of Aswan)."
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I have a few more Slides of these but i have been having problems scanning them ...
I will try again later
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Bummer. That's technology for you
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