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Restoration of a monumental statue:

 

God Amun & goddess Mut from Karnak

The work on the monument resulted from a successful partnership between the Super Council of Antiquities and the American Research Center in Egypt.

The project has conserved and reassembled 4-metet-high monumental statue group representing Amun and Mu tseated on a throne.

The statue group comes from Karnak temple, where it was dedicated by King Horemheb (1320-1306 BC) at the end of theEighteenth Dynasty in the once-column hall to the north of the obelisk of Hatshepsut.

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