Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Bani Hassan Rock Tombs 6128EG07JHP
Photographs in this gallery cover the main sites of Amarna, its North Palace, Aten and Small Temple, Bani Hasan Rock cut chapels, Tuna el-Gebel with the Catacombs with baboon and ibis mummies, Stela of Akhenaten on the north boundary, Petosiris Tomb-Chapel, Chapels of Ptoemais and Isadora, Roman Water Wheel Well and Temple of Thoth and el Ashmunein with an Open Air Museum with huge granite statues of Baboons and nearby a Temple to Thoth with a later Christian Basilica all located along the River Nile between Cairo and Luxor accessed from the nearby university city of Minya
© Jim Henderson
Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
Collection: | Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn | |||
Filename: | Bani Hassan Rock Tombs 6128EG07JHP |
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Upload Date: | 2007-10-23 06:56:16 | |||
Photo Size: | 9.4mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Bani Hassan Tomb Entrance Rock Cut Cliff Face Ancient EgyptMinya area and one of 39 tombs along the face of a bluff above the River Nile some 20km south of Minya make Bani Hasan a special visiting place for its decorations along the themes of wrestling, battle scenes and the collection of taxes by the nomarchs of the Oryx Nome give some beautiful tomb paintings to view - unfortunately photography was absolutely refused when I visited. |
Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, River Nile, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, Bani Hassan, Beni, landscape, Arabs, habitants, settlers, tombs, Governors, capital, Oryx Nome, limestone, rock, climb, 80 metres, steps, cut, 39 tomb-chapels, paintings, coloured, colored, wrestlers, skills, techniques |