Built in the ancient city of Thebes, the Sphinx Avenue was unveiled at a ceremony that Egyptian officials said was part of a campaign to promote Luxor as one of the world’s largest open-air museums.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi and senior government officials attended a ceremony that showcased an ancient religious festival along a 2,700-meter-long promenade with Sphinx statues and ram-headed statues.
Statues and temples were at the center of major restoration work. The first statue was excavated in 1949, and a third of the original statues have been discovered since then. In April, authorities organized a procession of 22 ancient royal mummies that were transferred from the Egyptian Museum in the cult Tahrir Square to the new Cairo Museum in the historic al-Fustat area.
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