On our way back to Luxor, we had a quick stop at the Statues of Memnon. These two giant statues seem to be sitting randomly on the side of the road, but are actually the only remnants of what was the biggest temple in Egypt. The guards stood at the entrance of the temple, which was destroyed by an earthquake thousands of years ago. For hundreds of years the people of the areas believed the statues still held the spirits of the gods because the statues would “sing”. Makes ense – I mean, how can a statue sing if it’s not possessed? Western archaeologists put the myth to rest when they came to Luxor to explore the Valley of the Kings in the early 1900s – because of all the cracks in the statues, when the wind would pass through it would created a humming noise, which was amplified due to the size of the statues.
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