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Egypt > Abydos & Dendara (1 file)

Images of two important sites north of Luxor near the River Nile but usually visted as an extra tour either by road or a day cruise.
Dendara Construction eg075522jhp Dendara Temple exterior closeup ancient Egypt construction platform paving dovetails photo is located north of Luxor and survives as one of the finest examples of the Late Period and the main buildings visited today date from fourth century BC in to the Roman period. It has a notable rare representation of the famous Cleopatra, some beautiful carvings and is relatively unscathed by the ravages of time, desecration and being dismantled for building materials. This photo is of a closup of one of the dovetail joints connecting adjacent blocks of limestone and would have been filled with mortar cement for additional strength. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dendara, Dendera, Temple, upright, detailed, closeup, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptology, Gods, Cleopatra, Ptolemy, Ptolemaic, Pharoah, carving, construction, methods, engineering, platform, base, wall, basal, foundation, stone, stonework, dovetails, reinforcement, links

Egypt > North of Cairo (1 file)

This gallery has photographs of the main sites North of Cairo, usually visited privately as not part of most Egyptian tours, and includes Heliopolis, Tell Basta near Zagazig and Tanis near the north coast of Egypt
Tanis Amun Ramses Obelisks EG077183JHP Tanis Obelisk Cartouche Closeup Photo Ramses Temple Amun Ancient Egypt site in Delta Northern Egypt once thought to be the capital created by Ramses but was the capital of the 24th Nome of Lower Egypt and important in the late Egyptian period. Has Ramesside Temple of Amun with other temples from reigns of Osorkon, Sheshonq and Ptolemy but of special interest are the Royal Tombs where that of Psusennes in particular was intact and gave up one of the richest burial good collections, apart from Tutankhamun, with its famous silver coffin, now in the Cairo Museum. A visit to Tanis is usually by private means but can be incorporated with a day trip through the Delta visiting Heliopolis and Tell Basta but does involve considerable motoring. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Tanis, San al-Hagar, Djane, Delta, landscape, history, ancient, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, Ramasses, Ramses, closup, deepcut, granite, carvings, hieroglyphs, broken, obelisks, obelisk, standing, mudbrick, enclosure

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