Posts under ‘Egypt Temples’

The Egyptian Middle and New Kingdom capital of Thebes, in the modern town of Luxor Egypt, was first occupied during the Old Kingdom. It first grew to prominence in the Middle Kingdom, between 2025-1700 BC as the home city of ruling pharaohs such as Mentuhotep I.
The oldest standing building remains are pieces of the temple [...]

The archaeological site of Serabit el-Khadem is on the Sinai peninsula, on a small plateau north of the modern town of al-Tor. The site is famous for its enormous turquoise mines, exploited by the Egyptians during the Old Kingdom for use in sculpting scarabs and in powdered form as paint and faience enamel.
Serabit el-Khadem is [...]

The Ramesseum is a massive temple built by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II during his New Kingdom reign (1279-1213 BC). He built this magnificent structure in Thebes too close to the Nile, and it has suffered serious damage in the intervening millennia since its construction.

Abu Simbel is a temple built by Ramesses II (Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of the Egyptian New Kingdom, who ruled 1279-1213 BC) in Nubia, what is now in Egypt near the border of Sudan. It was investigated by James Breasted at Chicago’s Oriental Institute.
Originally carved into and out of the sandstone cliffs of the [...]

Situation:
Philae is mentioned by numerous ancient writers, including Strabo.Philae proper, although the smaller island, is, from the numerous and picturesque ruins formerly there, the more interesting of the two. Prior to the inundation, it was not more than 1250 English feet, or rather less than a quarter of a mile, long, and about 400 feet [...]

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

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 [...]