Around 278 BCE, tourists from Greece and Italy started flocking to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt to see the tombs. We know this because of the graffiti that they left behind. Some etched their names or their jobs on the sides of walls while others wrote of their amazement for the place where they stood. However, one unique piece of graffiti at the Colossi of Memnon stands out. The Colossi had been damaged in earthquakes, and air seeping through the cracks tended to make a high whistling sound.
When one Greek tourist heard the whistle, he believed that Memnon had cried out the name of his mother. He wrote what he’d heard on the foot. Then he added a message to someone else. “I missed you, O my mother,” he wrote, “and I prayed that you might hear him, too.”
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