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Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn (3 files)

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
Bani Hassan Rock Tombs 6145EG07JHP Bani Hassan Rocky Bluff Thirty Nine Rock Cut Tombs Cliff High Up Steps Climb along the face of a bluff above the River Nile some 20km south of Minya makes this 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. The climb to the tomb-chapels is a steep 80 metre climb and although the steps are modern it is not for the faint hearted during the heat of the Egyptian summer. 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
Bani Hassan Rock Tombs 6128EG07JHP Bani Hassan Tomb Entrance Rock Cut Cliff Face Ancient Egypt Minya 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
Bani Hassan Rock Tombs 6125EG07JHP Bani Hassan Rock Cut Officials Tombs Face Cliff Steep Egypt Desert with thirty nine 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. Although modern steps now exist be warned it is a steep climb especially in the heat of the Egyptian summer. 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

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