{"id":555805,"date":"2021-11-28T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/11\/28\/road-of-rams-renovation-gets-a-glitzy-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2021-11-28T04:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T04:00:56","slug":"road-of-rams-renovation-gets-a-glitzy-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/11\/28\/road-of-rams-renovation-gets-a-glitzy-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Road of Rams renovation gets a glitzy inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Egypt\u2019s lavish spectacle in Luxor is all the rage in the foreign press this morning<\/strong>, with tens of outlets narrating Thursday\u2019s procession that opened the 3k-year-old Avenue of the Sphinxes (also known as The Road of the Rams) following its decades-long renovation, which was described as a \u201cglitzy\u201d and \u201cspectacular\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EgyptianCabinet\/videos\/609047850317529\">watch, runtime: 1:48:15<\/a>). The event included a procession of hundreds of performers dressed in pharaonic costumes along the 2.7 km-long road, a reenactment of the ancient Opet festival \u2014 in which statues of Theban deities were paraded during the New Kingdom era to celebrate the flooding of the Nile \u2014 and a firework display to wrap up the evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The opening of the Avenue of the Sphinxes marks the inauguration of one of the world\u2019s <\/strong><strong>largest open-air archaeological sites<\/strong> and comes as Egypt continues to up its efforts to revive tourism after the pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/435a8847-1d64-41a4-90c0-dacc5d503875\">all but shuttered the industry<\/a> for much of last year. This was the second made-for-TV spectacle of the year, following April\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/2e349cd2-3163-4b60-9b34-84d25eed7ff7\">Golden Parade<\/a>\u201d ceremony to mark the opening of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coverage is everywhere <\/strong>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-25\/sphinx-avenue-restored-after-2-500-years-as-egypt-boosts-tourism?sref=mmeFTDW1\">Bloomberg<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/egypt-unveils-renovated-avenue-of-the-sphinxes-in-luxor\/2021\/11\/25\/befac64e-4e1d-11ec-a7b8-9ed28bf23929_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-africa-middle-east-egypt-nile-river-1beac6181f4e599331510557c14343fc\">Associated Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-59424084\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/egypt-ancient-walkway-scli-intl-scn\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/egypt-reopens-its-grand-avenue-of-the-sphinxes-in-luxor-23n2wt7wk\">The Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/egypt-reopens-restored-ancient-avenue-of-the-sphinxes-in-luxor\/a-59941561\">DW<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/mena\/egypt\/2021\/11\/25\/egypts-avenue-of-sphinxes-reopens-in-spectacular-style\/\">The National<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s lavish spectacle in Luxor is all the rage in the foreign press this morning, with tens of outlets narrating Thursday\u2019s procession that opened the 3k-year-old Avenue of the Sphinxes (also known as The Road of the Rams) following its decades-long renovation, which was described as a \u201cglitzy\u201d and \u201cspectacular\u201d (watch, runtime: 1:48:15). 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