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A beautifully preserved Sphinx with a ram's head at Karnak. There were hundreds of these bordering either side of a long path. The original idea was to connect the temple at Luxor with the Karnak complex and line the entire road with these, but it was never completed.
A statue of the famous boy king and his wife at Karnak. (This is the guy whose tomb was discovered only recently in the Valley of the Kings - undisturbed by grave robbers and containing vast amounts of treasure). It interested me because King Tut's wife is portrayed here as being the same size as him - all of the other Pharaoh's liked to shrink their wives to about knee height for statues - some ego thing.