11 - Did You Know In History – Pharaonic History #shorts #Amenhotep III

#Discover_In_History Did You Know In History – Pharaonic History Amenhotep III has two seated statues known as the Colossi of Memnon in Western Thebes, each carved from a single piece of sandstone and 15 meters high without the base The two statues were erected by the engineer Amenhotep Ibn Habu They are now standing next to the road leading to the royal temples and the tombs of the kings in the cemetery. The reason for the fame of these two statues is that when an earthquake occurred in 27 BC, it shook the Thebes region and led to the splitting of the northern statue in half at its center. #Pharaonic_History