Colossi

On my first visit to Egypt, in 1970, one of the sites that impressed me the most was that of the Colossi of Memnon, two enormous statues located on the west bank of the Nile close to the Valley of the Kings. These 60-foot tall statues represent the Pharaoh Amenhotep III and originally flanked the entrance to his mortuary temple, of which little now remains.

The Colossi of Memnon

Note:
In ancient times, one of the statues used to make a strange moaning noise when the wind blew through cracks in it. However, this noise stopped after the Roman emperor Septimius Severus repaired the statues in 199 AD.