[HN Gopher] Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III un...
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       Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearthed at
       Luxor
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2022-01-27 22:15 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | pavlov wrote:
       | The crack on Amenhotep's face gives him a fitting expression for
       | an immortal king contemplating his legacy from the netherworld:
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       | "I spent 40 years building Egypt into a fortress against enemies
       | internal and foreign, and then my hippie son just throws it all
       | away by smoking some weed with the sun-worshipping Aten cultists,
       | becoming a monotheist, and moving into the freaking desert to get
       | a better tan."
        
         | User23 wrote:
         | It's fair to say Akhenaten's reign sparked a reaction.
        
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