Philae Temple Jewel Of The Nile

This little island, an alluvium covered rock of granite, only 460 x 150 m, is situated ca 8 km south of the Assuan Dam in Upper Egypt, in an area which in ancient times made out the border to Nubia.

Travel to Aswan and Luxor: Temple of Edfu 1

Travel to Aswan and Luxor: Temple of Edfu 1: Temple of Edfu " Temple of Horus"

Temple of Edfu 1

Temple of Edfu " Temple of Horus"

The Sun Perpendicular over the face of Ramses II

              

             Sunlight to Entry "holy of holies" and reach down to the statues of the four

Treatment with sand in Aswan

Treatment with sand in Aswan

Unfinished Obelisk

You know the  Unfinished Obelisk that name because they have not completed construction.

Archaeologists likely to this obelisk possibly due to the era of Queen Hatshepsut, Eighteenth Dynasty.

However, if construction was completed was the largest and the largest obelisk in the world and has become the largest Egyptian building.

The reasons for non - completion of obelisk :
Varied opinions archaeologists about the reasons for incomplete obelisk those of the most important of those reasons :

• A crack in the middle of the obelisk
• injury to disease plague workers so they to vacate the premises
  

Still even now obelisk attached to the rock mother in North quarries where ancient place extract granite.

Features obelisk:

• Weighing 1168 tonnes
• Height of 41.75 meters
• Rule 4 m width and 20 cm
• Summit 2 m width and 40 cm

However is a stunning location and to visit and watch.

Painting with henna

Inscriptions and drawings Henna plant