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The Sphinxes of St. Petersburg

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Neva River, St. Petersburg, Russia

"The sphinxes, I found out, are 3,500-year-old monuments that once stood in the Alley of Sphinxes in Egypt, serving as guards at the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep. They were discovered by French excavators in Egypt in the 1820s. In 1832, Tsar Nicholas I, influenced by the “Egyptomania” trend prevalent throughout the Western world at the time, purchased them from France [after France had purchased them from Egypt] as an exotic way to spice up St. Petersburg."

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Film: Impossible 600
Camera: Polaroid 660 Autofocus
Image size
695x844px 225.72 KB
Make
HP
Model
HP oj_g510g-m
Date Taken
Aug 17, 2014, 11:19:21 PM
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