The Colossi of Memnon, Colossus of Memnon, Colossus of Memnon, Statue of Banu, were created around the year 1350 BC, which is all that remains of a temple commemorating the Pharaoh (Amenhotep III), located in Western Thebes, Egypt. Ruler of King Amenhotep III, one of the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which is the most powerful ruling family in ancient Egyptian history.
In the first century BC, about 1300 years after the creation of the two statues, some of their parts cracked and cracks occurred in the left statue. And if the morning air passed through those cracks saturated with dew, a whistling sound would hear him, which prompted historians of ancient Greece who visited Egypt in the first century B.C. according to the logical level prevailing at the time to claim that the statue sings at the sunrise, and they recorded this strange phenomenon in writing on the leg of the statue And his base and wrote poems in Greek about it.
The Roman Emperor Hadrian and his wife Yebena came and spent several days next to the statue to listen to its singing, according to the claims of interpretations of that era.
As for the link between these two statues and “Memnon”, the Greek myth in that is not without its funny. They attributed the two statues to one of the Athenian heroes called “Memnon” who participated in the Trojan War, and it happened that he was killed by “Achilles”, one of the Greek heroes in that war. Memnon was considered a son of the dawn “Ayos” and they claimed that this hero, who died killed, used to greet his mother with a breeze every morning with a sad voice.
With the increasing importance of the myth that was woven around these two statues, until one of the Roman emperors decided to fix the cracks and cracks of the statues, around the year 200 AD the sound ceased forever, and it is the Western phenomenon that remained for a long time a reason for the influx of visitors and travelers to Egypt, and the truth remains. , And that these two statues are of King Amenhotep III, one of the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which is the most powerful ruling family in ancient Egyptian history.
