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Egypt Pictures and information, page 2.
Taken on both September 25, 2001 and January 7, 2003.
Click on the pictures to enlarge.
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Temple at Philae:
Philae in Greek or Pilak in ancient Egyptian, meaning 'the end,' defined
the southern most limit of Egypt. It was begun by Ptolemy II and
completed by the Roman Emperors. The Temple was dedicated to the goddess
Isis, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus. |
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Temple at Kom Ombo
is located on a bend in the river Nile about 50 km north of Aswan.
Located on the east bank, Kom Ombo is home to an unusual double temple
built during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The temple is dedicated to
the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Haroeris (Horus
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Temple
of Horus: Dedicated to Horus, the falcon headed god, it was built
during the reigns of six Ptolemies. We have a great deal of information
about its construction from reliefs on outer areas. It was begun in 237
BC by Ptolemy III Euergetes I and was finished in 57 BC. Most of the
work continued throughout this period with a brief interlude of 20 years
while there was unrest during the period of Ptolemy IV and Ptolemy V
Epiphanes. |
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Valley of the Kings:
The Egyptian belief that "To speak the name of the dead is to make
him live again" is certainly carried out in the building of the
tombs. The king's formal names and titles are inscribed in his tomb
along with his images and statues. Beginning with the 18th
Dynasty and ending with the 20th, the kings abandoned the Memphis area and built their tombs in Thebes.
Also abandoned were the pyramid style tombs. Most of the tombs were cut
into the limestone following a similar pattern: three corridors, an
antechamber and a sunken sarcophagus chamber. |
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Temple of Queen
Hatshepsut: Hatshepsut was an 18th-dynasty pharaoh who was one of
the handful of female rulers in Ancient Egypt. Her reign was the longest
of all the female pharaohs, and her funerary temple still stands as a
tribute to her incredible rise to power |
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The Collossi of Memnon
are statues of Pharaoh Amenophis II (Amenhotep II), better known as the
father of Akhenaten, the heretic-king. The Greeks heard the wind blowing
past the statues and thought that it was their hero, Memnon, speaking to
them, hence the English name. These statues are from the New Kingdom era
and are located between the Nile River and the Valley of the Nobles on
Luxor's West Bank |
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The
Temple of Luxor
is close to the Nile and parallel with the riverbank. King Amenhotep III
who reigned 1390-53 BC built this beautiful temple and dedicated it to
Amon-Re, king of the gods, his consort Mut, and their son Khons. This
temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up
to the present day. It was completed by Tutankhamun and Horemheb and
added to by Ramses II. |
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The
Temple of Karnak
was known as Ipet-isut (Most select of places) by the ancient Egyptians.
It is a city of temples built over 2000 years and dedicated to the
Theben triad of Amon, Mut and Khonsu.For the largely uneducated ancient
Egyptian population this could only have been the place of the gods. It
is the mother of all religious buildings, the largest ever made and a
place of pilgrimage for nearly 4,000 years |
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