Beyond the bend the precipices of jasper red confine a flower-dotted
meadow shaded by trees, where sphinx-like figures, colossi, and
shattered pylons of warm and sombre reds suggest the Egyptian ruins at
Karnak and Thebes. Several obelisks rise isolated from the gardens of
the shrine. This is the beautiful Temple of Sinawava, the last of the
courts as one ascends the Canyon. It was here that President Harding
paid his tribute to Zion in 1923.