{"id":427222,"date":"2010-03-14T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-1495336797573304945"},"modified":"2010-03-14T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:42:21","slug":"more-re-the-avenue-of-sphinxes-in-luxor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/427222","title":{"rendered":"More re the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article7060963.ece\">The Times<\/a> (Matthew Campbell)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors will have the chance to stroll under the imperious gaze of the  sphinxes \u2014 mythological creatures with the body of a lion and head of a  human or ram.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the buried avenue, 75 yards wide and flanked originally by an estimated 1,350 sphinxes, will be opened in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the longest processional avenue in the world,\u201d said Jihane Zaki, a government Egyptologist. Its restoration, he said, would return \u201cdignity and glory\u201d to Luxor, in what was once the ancient city of Thebes.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy has surrounded the project, not least because of the speed of the excavation in which bulldozers have cut a 100-yard trench through some of the densely populated districts of Luxor.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign archeologists say historical buildings have been demolished to make way for a lucrative new attraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing is a disgrace,\u201d said an American archeologist, who declined to be named because of fears of reprisals from Egyptian officials. \u201cThe work is being done in a big rush to get the place ready for tourism. Several very special buildings have been destroyed on purpose. They\u2019re murdering the soul of the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dispute has drawn in Unesco, which has responsibility for world heritage sites such as the Luxor and Karnak temples at each end of the avenue.<\/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\/6760875-1495336797573304945?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times (Matthew Campbell) Visitors will have the chance to stroll under the imperious gaze of the sphinxes \u2014 mythological creatures with the body of a lion and head of a human or ram. The remainder of the buried avenue, 75 yards wide and flanked originally by an estimated 1,350 sphinxes, will be opened in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427222","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=427222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}