Dr. Khaled El-Anany, Minister of Tourism and antiquities has invited
Egyptian and foregin dignitaries to attend the celebration ceremony of the completion of
major restoration work on the road and the temples of Karnak and Luxor. The ceremony
will be live streamed at 7:30PM.
The Avenue of the Sphinxes stretches 2,700 metres (2.7 km) between the ancient
Karnak and Luxor temples with hundreds of ram-headed statues, and sphinxes statues
on both sides. This road was used once a year during the Opet festival when the
Egyptians paraded along it carrying the statues of Amun and Mut in a symbolic
re-enactment of their marriage. At Luxor temple Amun was magically transformed into
Min the god of fertility
