Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's condition is improving after successful gallbladder surgery in Germany on Saturday, a hospital spokesman said on Tuesday.
The spokesman added it was unclear how long the 81-year-old Mubarak would remain in the hospital in the western city of Heidelberg, but the medical team would give an update on his condition in the next two days.
And a swift recovery is wished Mr President.
in this area 2 years ago was a Mosque and the local police station while taking the later down many people came to throw stones at the once prison cells. we can all guess why, and I wonder if the police and imprisoned persons knew they where using a urinal that was depositing its contents on the heads of the sphinxes, or did the people going to prayer know that the bathing water would also be cleansing the once Gods of Egypt ,
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since the people realized the president was not coming much of the newly laid stone path has been dug up
and laid properly, and the mud brick walls are now in place so as when in the future our rich tourists will get a feel of the ancients that took two days in ceremony to walk this 3 kilometer path to the Karnak temple.
they say this new walk way of sphinxes is going to cost an estimated 50 million dollars. but will be regenerated by the tourist in twelve months after opening, so this means that we will have to pay to walk the 3 kilometers to Karnak or vice versa. the next shot is the new dig after taking some of the buildings down.
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And another view from the church to the temple in time will be adorned with the sphinxes
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Like this photo shows not much of the original stone has been found to date from all the digs only one almost complete sphinx has been recovered, also note the mud and brick walls.
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the last dig before the church this is how the whole dig has been all they have found are remnants of the bases to the once proud standing Sphinxes. gone are the buildings hurriedly taken down and carted off to some landfill project.
The newly unearthed avenue of the Spinx looking from Karnak temple towards Luxor Temple soon all in its path will be demolished
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Looking at the new dig near the Luxor temple Only one Spinx up to date has been found almost complete,
photo taken 20/2/10
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these are the mud bricks that are being used to back up the concrete walls. so when walking along the avenue it will give a feeling its very old but the Spinx themselves are being rebuilt in whatever stone they find from the dig and mortar in place of what they think the Spinx looked like 3500 years ago. now if I was too build myself a home in this area say 200 years ago. and found a load of stone ( From the avenue) I would have built my home in it, especially the foundation stones because the Nile level was much Higher than what it is today building my foundation in mud brick as i would the rest of the house would have been a bit of a miscalculation of what Water and mud does (not Mix) , but this Job of demolition of the houses was done at such speed with large bulldozers and mechanical shovels 50 ton Lorries carting the debris away to some place maybe to the reed beds. no one knows if the the stones from the avenue where also carted off . so in a few hundred years time we will have another Egyptologist finding what looks like the head of a sphinx. and digging up all of what was reed beds thinking he is going to find another avenue of sphinxes, and a vane of asbestos and gypsum.
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after walking one block some 200 yards we come to the next part of the dig looking towards Karnak temple
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and back towards the Church and Luxor
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The crane is in Karnak Temple and has been there for the past 8 years for me to know.
18/3/10 the next phase of demolition is underway
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the project involves the restoration of a 2.7-km (1.7-mile) alley that connects the grand temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the River Nile.Lined with a number of statues in the shape of sphinxes -- thus the name "Avenue of Sphinxes" -- the alley was built by the 30th Dynasty king Nectanebo I (380-362 B.C.), who replaced an older path dating from the Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1292 B.C.).
The pathway was the location of important religious ceremonies in ancient times. One of the most important was the Opet festival, whose main event was a procession with a cult statue of Amun carried from Karnak to Luxor, the site of the ancient city of Thebes.
"The avenue had some branches with rest places and shrines. Queen Hatshepsut recorded on her red chapel in Karnak temple that she built six chapels dedicated to the god Amun-Re along this route," Sabry Abd El Aziz told Discovery News.
Indeed, remains of the chapels built by Hatshepsut (1502-1482 B.C.), then reused by king Nectanebo I in the construction of sphinxes, have been found along with remains of Roman wine factories and a huge cistern for water.
During the first part of the excavation, in which about a third of the pathway has been dug up, Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed 650 sphinxes out of the original 1350, and several reliefs.
One of the reliefs features the ancient symbol of Cleopatra (51-30 B.C.). According to Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cleopatra likely visited the avenue during her Nile trip with Mark Anthony and implemented restoration work that was marked with her cartouche.
The fragmented sphinxes are now under restoration. Soon they will be placed on display along the avenue.
the project involves the restoration of a 2.7-km (1.7-mile) alley that connects the grand temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the River Nile.Lined with a number of statues in the shape of sphinxes -- thus the name "Avenue of Sphinxes" -- the alley was built by the 30th Dynasty king Nectanebo I (380-362 B.C.), who replaced an older path dating from the Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1292 B.C.).
The pathway was the location of important religious ceremonies in ancient times. One of the most important was the Opet festival, whose main event was a procession with a cult statue of Amun carried from Karnak to Luxor, the site of the ancient city of Thebes.
"The avenue had some branches with rest places and shrines. Queen Hatshepsut recorded on her red chapel in Karnak temple that she built six chapels dedicated to the god Amun-Re along this route," Sabry Abd El Aziz told Discovery News.
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Indeed, remains of the chapels built by Hatshepsut (1502-1482 B.C.), then reused by king Nectanebo I in the construction of sphinxes, have been found along with remains of Roman wine factories and a huge cistern for water.
During the first part of the excavation, in which about a third of the pathway has been dug up, Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed 650 sphinxes out of the original 1350, and several reliefs.
One of the reliefs features the ancient symbol of Cleopatra (51-30 B.C.). According to Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cleopatra likely visited the avenue during her Nile trip with Mark Anthony and implemented restoration work that was marked with her cartouche.
The fragmented sphinxes are now under restoration. Soon they will be placed on display along the avenue.
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