Dec 29, 2013
Travel to Aswan and Luxor: Temple of Edfu 1
Travel to Aswan and Luxor: Temple of Edfu 1: Temple of Edfu " Temple of Horus"
Dec 28, 2013
Nov 25, 2013
The Sun Perpendicular over the face of Ramses II
Sunlight to Entry "holy of holies" and reach down to the statues of the four
Nov 23, 2013
Oct 9, 2013
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 :
Still even now obelisk attached to the rock mother in North quarries where ancient place extract granite.
Features obelisk:
However is a stunning location and to visit and watch.
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
Oct 8, 2013
temples of Karnak "1"
Karnak largest and most important temples in
the Luxor area, a temple dedicated to the god Amun.
Famous Karnak due to being indeed a Group of multi temples which were built
beginning of
the 11 the family around the year 2134 BC., When Thebes was the
center of the Egyptian religion.
The largest temple built in the ancient world,
where an area of about 60 acres
And continued the Building of 1,500 Year.
The temples of Karnak is one of the biggest and
greatest constructive what has huge edifices dedicated to the worship of the
gods in the whole history of the world . Studies of these temples integrated
detailed study is not an easy study complex but is largely Perhaps the reason
for this is the disappearance of many parts of the temples and the demolition
of other parts , but used
set
of furniture for new buildings . There is no doubt that the edifices ten Temple of
Amun -Ra at Karnak was filled with still large numbers of pieces of stone that
was used Stuffing her and that took most likely of the other buildings and our
guide on this is what was found cryptographic inside the edifice third held by
the Amenhotep III Temple of Amun -Ra at Karnak .
The temples of Karnak includes ten edifices,
six of which are on the east-west axis, and four North-south axis. In addition
to the Temple of Rameses III, and a celebration of King tutmo III and a garden of Amun, and the Chamber of
grandparents, and holy lake, the museum is open, which includes booths Senusret
I, Amenhotep I, Hatshepsut and Thutmose IV, and agroup statues of the goddess
Sekhmet, and architectural elements other.
And stand in the temple of Karnak
obelisks, one of Queen Hatshepsut, and the other of King Thutmose I, in
addition to the broken parts of the obelisk of Hatshepsut and others.
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