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On this page  Imhotep tomb,Mummy, Luxor Temople , Karnak Temple. temple of Montu  Toud, temple of  Knhum Esna,Hatshepsut.

On this page  El-Kab.

On the east bank of the Nile 23km north of Edfu is one of the oldest settlements of Upper Egypt. The ancient town of Nekheb was called Eleithyiaspolis in classical times and comprises of monuments spanning periods of Egyptian history from Predynastic through to Ptolemaic. El-Kab and its sister site of Hierakonpolis on the west bank of the river were the home of Nekbet, the vulture goddess of Upper Egypt.

Tomb of Ahmose Pennekhbet (EK2)
Ahmose Pennekhbet was ‘Overseer of the Seal’ in early Dynasty XVIII. Biographical texts and portrayals of Ahmose with his son and other relatives can be seen around the door jambs.

Tomb of Paheri (EK3)

Paheri was a Mayor of Nekheb during Dynasty XVIII. The well-preserved paintings in his tomb show scenes of offerings at his funeral procession and agricultural scenes of daily life. In a niche in the rear wall is a statue of Paheri with his wife and mother.
 
Tomb of Setau (EK4)

Setau was a priest in the service of Nekhbet during the reign of Rameses III. On the outside wall of his tomb is a stela showing Setau and his wife adoring Re-Horakhty and Khepri. The paintings inside show the tomb-owner with his relatives in various offering scenes and a depiction of the Barque of Nekhbet with jubilee texts of Rameses III on the west wall.

Tomb of Ahmose, son of Ibana (EK5)

Ahmose in his biographical texts is described as ‘Captain of Sailors’ and was prominent in the wars of liberation against the Hyksos rulers when the southern princes laid siege to the town of Avaris in the Delta. The text tells of the favours Ahmose was granted for his part, including the award of the ‘gold of honour’ and tells that he was given four slaves by His Majesty from the booty he carried off. He was the Grandfather of Paheri (EK3) who is seen offering to him in the tomb. A separate burial chamber opens off to the east.
 
Tomb of Renni (EK7)

A mayor of Nekheb during the reign of Amenhotep I, Renni’s tomb depicts the usual agricultural scenes, banquet scenes and funeral procession. The remains of a statue of the tomb-owner flanked by two jackals can be see in a niche in the rear wall. The ceiling of this tomb is beautifully painted to represent the cloth roof of a tent or canopy.

There are also Middle Kingdom tombs at El-Kab which are presently inaccessible.

If you have time (and permission) to drive down the Wadi Hellal road which runs 4km west towards the desert, there are many other sites to visit. You will need to collect a guard with the keys to the monuments at the resthouse. At the entrance to the valley is a Ptolemaic rock-sanctuary dedicated to Seshmetet. Just to the southeast higher up the hillside, is a temple of Nekhbet consisting of two halls with Hathor columns and a rock-cut sanctuary. This was built by Rameses II, restored by Ptolemies VIII-X and has a stela of Rameses II cut into the façade. The reliefs inside the temple are not well-preserved, but the steps leading up to it and the courtyard have been recently restored. Back towards the road is a structure called locally el-Hammam (the bath), a square single roomed chapel dedicated to local gods and to the deified Rameses II by his Viceroy of Nubia, Setau (a different person to the owner of tomb EK4).

Further along the valley road is ‘Vulture Rock’, so-called because its shape seen at a certain angle (and with imagination) resembles the shape of a vulture. The faces of the rock are covered with petroglyphs and Old Kingdom inscriptions probably made by pilgrims passing this way on the ancient desert road. Several Old Kingdom kings are named on smooth panels cut into the rock, the earliest cartouche is that of Snofru. There are also Late Period primitive rock-carvings.

A little further on is a small temple dedicated to Hathor and Nekhbet, built by Tuthmose IV and Amenhotep III. The single chamber was apparently a way-station for the barque of Nekhbet when the statue of the goddess was brought to her desert valley. Quite a lot of colour still remains on the wall reliefs inside the temple, depicting Tuthmose IV and his son Amenhotep III. The building was restored in late antiquity and brightly painted scenes of rituals as well as the vulture goddess still can be seen. On the chapel façade is a text by Prince Khaemwaset, the son of Rameses II, announcing his father’s jubilee in year 42, as well as graffiti by other passing travellers.

 
There is also a destroyed temple built by Tuthmose III to the west of the nobles tombs, and Old Kingdom mastaba tombs of Kiamen and Nefershemem of Dynasty IV.

In December 2000 news was announced that Belgian archaeologists have discovered a small and mostly intact cemetery at El-Kab which has been dated to Dynasty II. The 35 graves, mostly belonging to infants, are reported to be circular stone structures sometimes arranged around natural boulders and 18-20m in diameter. This type of tomb has not been seen before in Egypt and they have been compared to Neolithic burial mounds in Europe. Although there is no evidence of wrapping or mummification, the largest tomb contained fragments of a pottery coffin. It is suggested that the new cemetery represents a ‘missing link’ between the Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic burial ground found within Elkab’s town walls and a recently discovered Third Dynasty mastaba.

During 2003 a team of conservators led by Vivian Davies of the British Museum, began work on the Dynasty XVII tomb of Sobeknakht, a governor of Nekheb. The cleaning process revealed an inscription of a previously unknown attack on Egypt by the Kingdom of Kush and their allies from Punt. The biographical text tells of the Kushite raid and subsequent counter-attack by the Egyptians. Egyptologists are regarding the text as one of the most significant inscriptions about Dynasty XVII military history found to date. Evidence corroborating these events have also recently been found in Sudan, where archaeologists discovered a vessel that was once in Sobeknakht’s tomb.

 the  page from  

http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/el-kab/    we could only go to the following sites. on 29/3/10

first site just before the tombs of EL-Kab

A little way from the road but quite easily accessible, no guard or police .

from what I could make out of this tomb it was never used  as it was built in shale  the main entrance for the tomb was in quite good condition as this was a harder stone. but as they dug into the hill it became shale and therefore would have been abandoned. there was two entrances and 2 light shafts,  and the only ones who use this are the graffiti boys and a WC

 The stone in the front of the tomb is quite hard  and easily carved.

unknown temple

15 kilometers from Luxor  this is the first web site to show photos of this temple.

its not open to the public yet, 

 I have to get permission to go inside the temple walls  to take photos  and hopefully by the  12/12/09

Pyramids at Giza & Saqqara. 

When Egypt is mentioned most people think of Pyramids

and there are many web sites about them, start your search with Khafre www.touregypt.net/cheops.htm

map of the Giza pyramid complex.

 

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12/1/2002

Sphinx at Giza

What is in the white buildinghttp://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/aboat.htm

Transportationand trade were not the only reasons for seaworthy boats to be built inancient Egypt. The pharaohs also recognized the need for a powerfulnavy, as is evidenced in this account written by Ramses III to Amen:
Ibuilt you ships, freight ships, arched ships with rigging, plying theBig Green (the sea). I manned them with archers, captains andinnumerable sailors, to bring the goods of the Land of Tyre and theforeign countries at the end of the world to your storage rooms atThebes the Victorious.
Many pharaohs achieved incredible feats with their fleets, such as Queen Hatshepsut’s voyage to Punt, but from the 20th dynasty

sakkara tomb

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Sakkara, Pyramids, Cairo

The next photos are taken as I walked around to the Pyramid

                       

Mummy of Imhotep Sakkara Museum Cairo

Click on the photos to enlarge
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/imhotepmuseum.htm

Sakkara is best known for the Step Pyramid, the oldest known of Egypt's 97 pyramids. It was built for King Djoser of the 3rd Dynasty by the architect and genius Imhotep,

Saqqara tomb

Sakkara, Pyramids, Cairo

The next photos are taken as I walked from the tomb around to the stepped Pyramid

the inside of the kiosk

burial chambers,

there are r of these Large stone tubs

 burial shafts

More hassle coming up, no sign of the humans but they are there somewhere waiting in the shadows while the animals have to endure searing tempratures up to 50c at this time of year.

Camel Mister ?  "  Yes Said I "  we have many camels in Luxor.

So I know  I have seen one before. (q) you like me to take a photo of your camel, (a)   yes . that will be 10Egp for photo.

 "I said " La   you pay me 2 $ because I put your camel on the web site and now it will be famous. The guy was baffled at this  long conversation that he did not understand. apart from the  "La"   bit No,  and stood there scratching his head as I walked on. none of the other guys bothered to try and get me to Take a donkey or a horse, good thing too as it was too hot to start conversations that they did not understand again,  

another one Hiding because the camera was out.

they have no right to be here but for the fact they pay the police to hassle the tourist.

More hassle coming, this is where the burial pits are situated.

Its A wonder they are not full of rubbish

find a hole and put it in is the Egyptian motto for the Garbage.

The new cover is made from Concrete

Thebes the West bank of Luxor

Luxor Temple from the Hot air balloon

 

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm    History of the Village of the workers (Deir El Medinet

Today there are only 3 of these pyramid styles in Deir El Medinet 

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/habu.htm

Medinet Habu  from the mountain and from the hot air balloon,

    V O K  http://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm   list of tombs etc.

tomb entrances in the Valley of the kings

entrance of the Tutankamun Tomb 

The Ramassium  http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/ramasseum.htm

 

and the arched brick grain /food stores.

Seti1st Temple
 

 

Arial view of the Nile and Myegypt hotel

Collossi of Memnon

 

The Colossi of Memnon

Hyroglific on the side of the Colossi

Valley  of the Queens

 Cairo

 
 

 

Karnak Temple

 

Derect from Karnak Temple view to Hatshepsut Temple


karnak temple looking to the Thebes Mountains   home of the Valley of the Kings & Queens   (Thebes) 

Looking to what will be the Avenue of the Sphinx  Karnak to Luxor. 3 kilometre

Heading on to the precict remains of Montu  And the precict remains of mut

Precict of Mut

 Precinct of Montu and Karnak temple in the background 

the sphinx avenue outside The east gate Karnak notice the intricate designs,

this has weather erosion most of the avenues sphinx are carved from sandstone

 not much remains for todays  archeologists to work on, even less if any! of the ones that homes were built on top of. time will tell.

 
click on the photos to enlarge

 

Karnak Temple

Barque Chapel of Seti I  in the first court yard

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak2.htm

Click on the signs to read

 

Karnak temple

 

Solar Barque

Obolisk

Akh-menou

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak.htm

Karnak Sacred Lake

I reckon these Pharaos  also had flower tubs.

they left this one behind,

 

Scarab Beetle

 

 

 

 

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/egypt_abu_simbel.htm

 

 
 
 

 unknown temple about 3 kilomitre from Medinet Habu used only now by the wild ife. due to its use over the decades most of the walls are covered in soot from fires that the previouse tennants made,the walls are covered in hyroglific.

the ministry of antiquities decided to make it an offence to live inside

there is a similar temple 100mitres from Medinet Habu that housed the priests of the Pharoes.

 

 
 Luxor Temple

 


 
 

This is where the avenue from Karnak will eventualy end

 
 

 

 
  

 

Luxor temple
 

 
 

Hatshepsut Temple

The Temple of Montu at Tod in Egypt

Situated in the area known As El Toud 15 Kilometres from Luxor towards Esna. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/todtemple.htm
I found references to this temple, I saw this temple some 4 years ago but could not enter as the entrance ticket has to be purchased in the Luxor Temple ticket office. There is not much to see and that is the reason I incorporated this trip with a visit to Esna Temple of khnum .from the photos you can see what little is left of this one time Pharaonic Temple. I also think this temple was never finished looking at the stonework on the furthest Temple precinct. The first photo really sums up how many people visit this ancient site, the village photos on http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2009/07/temple-of-toud.html show how hard it would be to find this temple without a local Guide.
As we enter you will see many of the broken stones



The main temple

Most temples have this kind of mud brick surrounding walls
that would have made the temple inpregnable to an attack.
  

Entance to the temple of toud

One of the first stones as entering the temple is from what once used to be the ceiling of the main temple with the wings of Karnak and the stars.( click on the photos to enlarge)

Monkeys and baboons played an essential role in Egyptian cosmogony. Various gods were portrayed as these creatures, and some of the earliest deities were sometimes depicted with baboon heads. One of the Four Sons of Horus, Hapy, who was associated with mummification, was represented as a baboon-headed canopic god. The green monkey, particularly when depicted shooting with bow and arrows, was an aspect of the invisible primeval god,

Walking into the temple the place is littered with stones

that once made up the temple.

the temple of toud Hyroglyfic

What remains of the hyroglific in the main tomb

The god Montu is depicted in hyroglyf on every wall in this temple;

construction of Toud

I am a retired stonmason. the reason I took this

photo with the cash card in the joint of the stone.

even with todays modern tools I could never make

joints where nowhere in all of this building can I put

anything thicker than my card. the reason I think this

area was never finished the stones are rough ,Ie, not

been smoothed off to make the hyroglific and no way

has this wall been reconstructed.

looking up the what was the avenue if the sphinxes

towards the unfinished building.

Avenue of the sphinx Toud

all thats left of the sphynxes is the base stone

there are 6 of these stones each side of the path.

looking down the avenue to the main temple.

A mixture of stones in Toud

A mixture of the stones from the what was the walls.

roof stones

the remains of a statue that may have been for a Pharaoh

stones depicting another form of the Goddess Hathor

one pillar with hathor is in Hatshepsut temple.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Esna Temple of khnum

all you need to know about the temple of Khnum http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/templekhnum.htm

Stairs & ceiling

 

Isna Temple ceiling

temple Pillars

Isna 6 style of pillars

Isna Temple

Hatshepsut Temple

 

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/bahri.htm

Hatshepsut Temple

 

 

 

Howard Carter house

The house that Carter lived in made famouse for his discovery of the Tutankhamun tomb the valley of the Kings is 2 kilomiter from here,

Mausoleum of some Sheikh (someone did tell me but I have forgot, will find out)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Temple of Mernptah

Tomb robbers

Temple of der El Medet (village of the workers)

Tombs found after the the demolition of the   tomb robbers houses

The Rammasium and graneries and a new tomb in the foreground.

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