Pedestals of Biahmu
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The Pedestals of Biahmu are the basal remnants of two colossal statues erected by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhat III. The ruins, which once stood on the shore of Lake Moeris, are located in th
One of the Pedestals of Biahmu (2006)
A drawing of the ruins made by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1849
Labib Habachi
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Labib Habachi was an Egyptian egyptologist.
Pedestals of Biahmu
…writer Richard Pococke visited the site in 1737, only the bases remained. In the 19th century, William Matthew Flinders Petrie studied the site, as did Labib Habachi in the 1940s. Habachi provided evidence that the statues had been raised by Amenemhat III, and Petrie argued that each were originally 60 feet (18 m…
Tomb of Labib Habachi in Malqata