Colossi of Memnon, Luxor West Bank

Two seated statues of Amenhotep III, each about 18 meters tall, are nearly all that stands of his mortuary temple on the west bank at Luxor, once the largest of the New Kingdom. After an earthquake in 27 BC cracked the northern statue, it gave off a sound at dawn, and Greek and Roman visitors came to hear it sing. Their inscriptions are still cut into its legs and base.