{"id":227978,"date":"2010-01-25T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-1282998390472319461"},"modified":"2010-01-25T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:48:39","slug":"development-avenue-of-the-sphinxes-luxor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227978","title":{"rendered":"Development:  Avenue of the Sphinxes, Luxor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=122924596\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With two good photos.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luxor is set to become one of the world&#8217;s largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the &#8220;Sphinx Alley&#8221; is complete in March, the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The project to restore the two-mile (three-kilometer) alley that links the grand temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the River Nile in Luxor has cost $45 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sphinx Alley was originally built with 1,200 statues, with one side lined up with ram-headed sphinxes and the other with regular sphinxes with human heads.<\/p>\n<p>The alley was built by Amenhotep III in the 12th century B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the alley was buried under sand.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-1282998390472319461?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR With two good photos. Luxor is set to become one of the world&#8217;s largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the &#8220;Sphinx Alley&#8221; is complete in March, the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, said Sunday. The project to restore the two-mile (three-kilometer) alley that links the grand temples of Luxor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}