Posts from ‘December, 2008’

The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut is situated beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the [...]

The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For [...]

Discovery of the tomb
In 1907, just before his discovery of the tomb of Horemheb, Theodore M. Davis’s team uncovered a small site containing [...]

Family and life
Ramesses II was the third king of the 19th dynasty, and the second child of Seti I and his Queen Tuya. His only definite [...]

History
The Theban Hills are dominated by the peak of al-Qurn, known to the Ancient Egyptians as ta dehent, or ‘The Peak’. It has a [...]

The catacomb of Kom El-Shuqafa (Shoqafa, Shaqafa) is one of Alexandria’s most memorable monuments. Identified as “a tour-de-force of rock-cut [...]

An amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is an open-air venue for spectator sports, concerts, rallies, or theatrical performances. There are [...]

Sakkara  (Saqqara)  is one of the most extensive archaeological sites in Egypt! It was the cemetery for Memphis, the capital of Ancient Egypt, yet it is still one of the virgin archaeological sites, despite the fact that so much has already been found here!
The site is dominated by the Step Pyramid of King Zoser, which [...]

Memphis was the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its [...]

History
The souk dates back to 1382, when Emir Djaharks el-Khalili built a large caravanserai (خا khan in Arabic) in Cairo under the [...]