00:00In the necropolis of Thebes in Egypt, the renovation of the famous Colossae of Memnon has been completed,
00:08and the monument has reopened to visitors.
00:11The twin statues are 14.5 and 13.5 meters high.
00:16They depict the pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
00:23They were badly damaged by earthquakes, and the restoration work took almost 20 years.
00:28This project has in mind, and I hope we fulfilled not only what we had projected, our project, but our dreams also,
00:40to save the last remains of a once prestigious temple. It was the largest of all.
00:45When they found actually those statues, they found it separated in very fragmentary conservation state,
00:54and of course, they have to work on it for more than 19 years, in order to put everything together,
01:04in order to collect all several pieces.
01:07The Egyptian government is stepping up efforts to attract more tourists by showcasing the country's vast archaeological wealth.
01:15A few weeks earlier, it inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, near the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.
01:21The Grand Egyptian Museum is a very famous representative of Giza and the Sphinx.
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