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This photo was taken in 2009, in Room 4 of the British Museum in London. It shows the left arm from an 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III, which dates from c.1370 BC. In 1817, the broken statue was discovered...

This photo was taken in 2009, in Room 4 of the British Museum in London. It shows the left arm from an 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III, which dates from c.1370 BC.

In 1817, the broken statue was discovered in the temple enclosure of Mut at Karnak in Egypt by Giovanni Battista Belzoni and Henry William Beechey..The 3.30m arm is one of only two known surviving parts of the statue (the other being the head, which is also in the museum). Both parts were acquired in 1823 by the British Museum from Henry Salt

My friend Sarah can be seen to the left of the photo.

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