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Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:47

Valley of the Kings

 

Valley of the Kings


Unleash your inner adventure while scout around the most gleaming finds of Valley of the Kings, and also known as doorway of the Kings, it is located on the east bank of the Nile River, behind el Deir el Bahari and also known as Hatshepsut Temple, it is lies at Luxor, Valley of the Kings contains large amout of tombs for Kings, Nobles from 18th Dynasty to 21 dynasty, The Valley of the Kings was created to prevent grave robbers from robbing the Pharaoh’s, There were over 60 chambers,4 many included Pharaohs such as: Tuthmosis I, Rameses I and Amenhotep I.

Keen when you visit Luxor to take an excursion to Valley of the Kings and explore Tutankamon Tomb, It lies directly opposite the tomb of Ramesses IX. For all the amount of treasure that had been found in this tomb, the space itself is small and all but one room was undecorated. Directly across from Tutankhamuns tomb lies.

Feel charming while visiting one of the largest areas for archaeological explorations of Egyptology over the last two centuries, The Valley is hidden from sight, behind the cliffs, which form the backdrop to the temple complex of Deir el-Bahri.

In the Valley of the Kings there are 60 undestroyed chambers, but over 100 chambers in total, Most of these tombs were found stolen when re-discovered, but the little ones like the tomb of, "Tutankhamun" (No. 62 Valley of the Kings) and the tomb of "Yuya and Thuya” contains thousands of precious artifacts.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:43

Tombs of the Nobles Luxor

 

Tombs of the Nobles Luxor


Scout around the most mysterious parts of ancient history of Pharaohs, beside excavation of Valley of the Kings and Queens, The Tombs of the Nobles actually comprises a number of distinct areas on the West Bank at modern Luxor, where high dignitaries of middle kingdom dynasties was buried there.

Historical experience is waiting for you to explore while visit Valley of the Nobles, The illuminated view of the northern hills of the west bank of the Nile is a truly magical one, not to be missed. These are architecturally extremely simple and all have the same layout: they are preceded by an air open terrace, followed by a vestibule with painted walls where the terrestrial occupations of the owner are described.

Approximately 17 tombs it dated back to Ramses II period, beside 40 tombs, mostly from the New Kingdom and later. And to the south of El-Assasif is El-Khokha, there is a hill with five Old Kingdom tombs and 53 numbered tombs from the 18th and 19th dynasty.

Rekhmire Tomb:

While it may be non-royal, the tomb of Rekhmire is one of the most fascinating tombs at the Valley of the Tombs on the West Bank at Luxor, he was a vizier responsible for taxation, justice and foreign policy under the rule of Tuthmosis III and Amenhotep II. The reliefs in his tomb depicts tribute being brought to Egypt, a procession of African beast and goods and Rekhmire's coronation a vizier.

Sennefer Tomb:

The tomb of Sennefer is one of the 'Tombs of the Nobles' on the West Bank at Luxor in Egypt, Most frequently depicted are the funeral banquets, with music and dance, work in the fields, the artisan activities and scenes of daily life in general, Sennifer was mayor of Thebes and overseer of the gardens of Amun during the reign of Amenhotep II. The antechamber of his tomb is decorated with reliefs of grape arbors.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:39

Temple of Medinat Habu

 

Temple of Medinat Habu


The Temple of Medinet Habu is one of the largest memorial Temples in Egypt, but unfortunately most tourists get to the temple at the end of a long day after watching other monuments and rarely enjoy more than a quick glance look at this breathtaking edifice, The monumental complex of Medinet Habu includes the Temple of Ramses III, in front of which was the Shrine of Thutmosis I and the Chaples of the adoring divinities of Amon.

Temple of Madinat Habu built by Ramses III, scout around the most gleaming parts of this fascinating temple, which consists of a huge gate, which takes the shape of a Syrian fort, feast your eyes with battle scenes of the King’s wars in Syria. After accessing the gate there is a shrine, which dates back to the 18th Dynasty, on the right hand side, moreover a wide-open court that leads to a huge pylon, which has both towers decorated with battle scenes.

Temple of Ramses III at Medinat Habu:

Temple of Ramses III is the most important temple in this region, which dates back to the eighteenth dynasty, ust inside the Highgate, to the south, is the chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenwepet II and Nitoket, wives of the god Amun. To the north side is the chapel of Amun. These chapels were a later addition dating to the 18th Dynasties, by Hatsepsut and Tutmose II. Later renovations were done by the Ptolemaic kings of the XXV Dynasty.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:36

Ramesseum

 

Ramesseum


Ramesses II built his fabulous mortuary temple on the site of Seti I's ruined temple; He ruled for 67 years during the 13th century BC, the apogee of Ancient Egypt's power and glory, the mortuary temple of Ramses II took around 20 years to build as a part of his funerary complex. The magnificent temple is on Luxor’s West Bank and in its day the Ramesseum was similar to Abu Simbel in grandeur and Medinet Habu in architecture.

The design of Ramses's mortuary temple follows the standard designs of New Kingdom temple architecture, Today, it is sadly only a few ruins: the pillars against which are set the statues of the pharaoh in the semblance of Osiris still remain on the façade of the hypostyle hall and what is left of the syenite statue of Ramses II seated on a throne. Many other Kings have superimposed monuments in the Ramesseum such as Mernptah and Ramses III.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:32

Temple of Hathor

 

Temple of Hathor


Unleash your inner adventure while scout around the most gleaming finds of the Workmen village at Deir el Medina, do not miss the chance when you visit Valley of the Kings to get a quick look at the village and then go into the two or more tombs, Usually they completely miss the temple at the other end of the village and yet I personally find it very charming and well worth a visit.

Ptolemaic Temple of Hathor:

Feast your eyes with one of the well designed temples in the world, Ptolemaic Temple of Hathor is dedicated to God Hathor, It is very small being only 15 x 24 meters and surrounded by a 50 square meter enclosure wall, it is at the Northern end of the village, the opposite end to the tombs of Sennedjem and Inherkhau.

The plain exterior walls of the temple enclosed an interesting architectural arrangement that unites an entrance hall or forecourt, which includes columns with papyrus capitals done in the late period style, with the facade of a pronaos. The pronaos front raises on a step behind the entrance hall and has two columns with composite capitals in antis.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:28

Karnak Open Air Museum

 

karnak Open Air Museum


Open Air Museum it considers the ruins of walls and pylons of temples are located at one place, when archaeologists working at karnak have found stones from earlier buildings, they collect all this artifacts and create a finest museum, a number of these blocks were gathered together and the buildings from which they came were reconstructed. Also there are many chapels that have been reconstructed here.

Keen to amuse yourself with plenty of monuments at open air museum, stare at the glory of some structures and be witness on the amazement of a small collection of statues and loose blocks, Unleash your inner adventure while explore a lot of this blocks which create a fascinating scenes and how they have worked out what belongs where, is a marvel. There are four way-stations, several huge temple walls, storage chambers, statues and hundreds of blocks from still-unreconstructed and many other buildings. These monuments are of such interest that the museum should be visited by every tourist who comes to Thebes.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:25

Mummification Museum

 

Mummification Museum


The Mummification Museum is located in Luxor on the Cornish of the Nile River, front of Mina House Hotel; the Mummification Museum presents the ancient Egyptian art of mummification and displays related artifacts and mummies. This one room museum was opened in 1998. It has interesting objects showing mummification tools substances used in mummification process, natron, certain ruined kinds of oil and perfumes as well as bandages.

Mummification experienced is waiting for you to explore at this fascinating museum, feast your eyes with the mummification techniques specialized to embalm many animal species, such as crocodiles, cats and fish. The museum covers an area of 2035 m² and contains the following elements: Hall of artifacts, Lecture hall, Video room and Cafeteria.

Keen to stare at each part of this booming museum, the ancient Egyptians imagined the underground world of the dead, where Osiris dwelt, though this actually changed over time. From very early times, they protected the afterlife of the dead by mummification, offerings, writing the name of the deceased and utterances in their calls. There are also ancient tablets that record the funeral journey from death to burial. The museum is divided into the Hall of Artifacts, Lecture Hall, Video Room and the cafeteria.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:22

Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep

 

Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep


Two minutes walking from Hatshepsut temple lies mortuary temple of Mentuhotep, This temple is a transition between the Old Kingdom temple of the pyramid, and the New Kingdom House of Millions of Years, many Egyptologists believe that the construction shape was similar to that of nearby Deir al Bahri except with a pyramid shape protruding from the roof. The ruins are interesting and the core structure of the temple is still in good condition.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:20

Malkata Palace

 

Malkata Palace


Malkata is the name of the site of the palace of Amenhotep III, Malkata Palace in located on the west bank of Luxor, In ancient times the palace was called "the House of Rejoicing" and "the Palace of the Dazzling, sadly all the remains of this fascinating palace became just ruins, it is built by Amenhotep III, Malkata palace consider one of the presidential palaces, it consists of Amun Temple, Festival Hall, Houses for the relatives of the Royal Family, audience halls.

Unleash your inner demand seeking for more knowledge concerning the mysterious of Pharaohs while scout around this Malkata Palace, Fragments of plastered wall paintings have given archaeologists a glimpse of how the palace was decorated, Various paintings of the goddess Nekhbet made up the ceiling of the royal bedchamber, The walls were decorated with scenes of wildlife - flowers, reeds, and animals in the marshes, as well as decorative geometric designs, complete with rosettes.

 

Wednesday, 30 December 2015 11:17

Luxor Temple

 

Luxor Temple


One of the amazing landmarks of Egypt is Luxor Temple, which consider the largest temple on the east bank of Nile River, this temple date back to New Kingdom and was established in1400 B.C, the temple is too close to the Nile River, and dedicated to Amon Ra, it was built on a site for temple also dedicated to Amon Ra, it located in the middle of Luxor city and was connected to Karnak Temple by avenue of sphinxes at ancient time.

Amenhotep III start to built this temple, and Ramses II added the front part and completed the Temple, according to Egyptology a lot of kings made many additional to this temple, like Alexander the great rebuilt the Sanctuary and converted it to church, at the entrance of the temple there is the Courtyard of Nectanbo and The Pylon of Ramses II, there once were 2 obelisks. Only one of them remains standing! The other was transported, in 1819, to La Place de le Concorde in Paris, as a gift to King Philip Louis of France by Mohamed Ali (who ruled Egypt 1805-1850 A.D), after he was given a French clock, which has never worked properly - even to this day!

Feast your eyes with the courtyard of Amenhotep III, It consists two large columns, The walls of this colonnade are decorated by scenes of the Opt Festival, special ceremonies for the visit of the "Triad of Karnak" to the Temple of Luxor, which are arranged to make a long processional avenue, You will find behind the Great Hall of columns several rooms, which is evidence of the ages that successive the Pharaonic era, in addition to some holy chapels for the Roman and Greek eras.

 

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