By Derek Olson
Featured here are the so called “Colossi of Memnon” statues near Luxor, Egypt that stand 60 feet tall. Each statue was crafted from one solid piece of quartzite and weighs approximately 1000 tons, the equivalent of 33 school buses. The quarry where this red quartzite was extracted from is in Cairo, over six hours away by car.
Both statues have been badly damaged, especially the statue on the right-side which has seen major restoration work to hold it together. You can clearly see how the head, chest and and left arm of this statue have been almost completely rebuilt in later times.
The mainstream narrative states that these statues were constructed about 1350 BC in the time of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, and once stood at the front of the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis. Now the mainstream narrative also states that this temple was destroyed by the Nile river flooding. However, this does not explain why the temple seems to have been blown apart and incinerated to where you can hardly see any traces of it today.
Our Egypt tour guide Mohamed Ibrahim, who is also an author and Egyptologist, theorizes that this temple was actually laid to waste around 10,000 BC during a time of cataclysmic solar disasters. This could also explain the severe damage to the statues.
It is my belief that these megalithic marvels predate Amenhotep and the dynastic Egyptians altogether by thousands of years, if not tens of thousands of years. I believe these statues depict an earlier golden-age civilization and were engineered using lost technology.
If you zoom in close on some of these photos, you can see still see the insane muscle tone on both of the statue’s knees and legs. Notice the precision detail on the skirt of the left-side statue. And all over the bottom half of both statues can be seen the deeply embedded precision 3D symbols and engravings that are far superior to the graffiti-like hieroglyphs that seem to have been scratched into the statues at a later time – which is likely what Amenhotep III did to claim these titans as his own.
Many of these graffiti-like writings are Roman-era inscriptions in Greek and Latin, dated to between AD 20 and 250, many of these inscriptions make reference to the Greek mythological king Memnon, whom the statues were then thought to represent, hence the name. As I mentioned earlier, this material came from over 400 miles away. How did the ancients transport a 1000 ton piece of stone that far? And before you answer by boat on the Nile – stop and consider how an army of thousands of men could realistically transport the 1000 ton stone on and off the boat, let alone over the vast desert to its resting place?
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