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    The Colossi of Memnon (Arabic: el-Colossat or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the...
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    transported the slain Memnon's dead body back to Aethiopia, and also asked Zeus to make Memnon immortal, a wish he granted. The Colossi of Memnon are two massive...
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    branch of the Nile on the west side of the Nile Valley. It ran approximately south–north with the Colossi of Memnon placed on the west bank of the river...
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    statue of an unidentified Roman emperor Colossus of Constantine, a bronze and marble statue of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great Colossi of Memnon, two...
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  • racehorse Memnon (novel) by Scott Oden, based on Memnon of Rhodes Memnon, the main villain in the film The Scorpion King 2895 Memnon, an asteroid Colossi of Memnon...
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  • Frank Asaro (category UC Berkeley College of Chemistry alumni)
    archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean.: 15–16  In 1973, Asaro and his colleagues embarked on a study of the Colossi of Memnon, two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep...
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  • of Amenhotep III, Seti I and Ramesses III. The latter two may be copies of the first one. The river god Hapi uniting Upper and Lower Egypt. Colossi of...
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    desert, passing the Colossi of Memnon and the Sphinx. As he addresses the Sphinx, believing it to be the Bøyg, he encounters the keeper of the local madhouse...
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    Amenhotep III (category Pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt)
    construction projects. All that remained standing was the gateway with the Colossi of Memnon — two massive stone statues depicting Amenhotep,18 m (59 ft) high...
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  • temple of Mentuhotep II, and that of Amenhotep III, of which the only major extant remains are the Colossi of Memnon. The mortuary temple of Hatshesput...
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