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Glory of Egypt
- Civilization story in Egypt
In the ancient Egyptians history, there were some times of glory which left a great staff of monuments to tell about their talents and skills in building and architecture.
During this long history, there were some brilliant periods such the old kingdom, middle kingdom and the new kingdom .
From the old kingdom (3200 -2180 b.c) dynasties 1 to 6 , we got the greatest of all the achievements in the world which are the pyramids of Giza west of Cairo .
Talking about the secrets of the pyramids isn’t ending, not only because of the way they built or the huge construction which is considered one of the seven wonders of the world but for the different elements in the building which about 14 elements includes 5 rooms could be more hidden and the funeral temple, the subway to the pyramid, the small pyramids of the queens, the port they used to transfer the stones through it and was connected to the nile as well every pyramid was connected with a canal to the nile.
We have in Egypt 114 pyramids between small and big ,some of them for kings and some others for queens.
Every year nearly ,some new discoveries are cleared ,and all the new ones tell more about how was the way they were built by and who were the workers who achieved that great work.
In the second glory period which is the middle kingdom, dynasties 11th and 12th about 2000 b.c Egypt got flourished again, we still have some tombs from this period and some remains for a temple in west of luxor beside Hatshepsut temple, the open courtyard in el karnak temple, and the nobles tombs in aswan all can tell about a great time in the history of the Egyptians .
The new kingdom (1550 -1050 b.c).
Dynasties 18th, 19th and 20 .
The glory of this time became so clear by the 18th dynasty, which started by kicking the Hyksos out of Egypt (they were ruling the delta north of Egypt for a long time) .
The Egyptians army led by king Seknnera and his two sons king Kamous and king Ahmos succeeded to push them out of Egypt.
Later by king Tutmosis 3rd ,Egypt became a big empire could occupy most of Asia and Africa, so the construction and building was flourished again in all of Egypt and many temples were built and restored at this time ,so we find karnak temple got bigger and greater, luxor temple became a piece of art ,kings valley which has very unique designs and decorations in side its tombs full of scenes either for afterlife or offering gifts and sacrifices to the gods and goddesses. More than that we still can see colors in many tombs like king Tutankhamun ,or Hormoheb.
After this great dynasty, the pharaos of the 19th and 20th continued in the same line of doing perfect temples and tombs especially in tombs like Ramses 1st,2nd ,3rd ,4th,6th ,9th ,and king Merenptah,they are some of the best in the valley.
Habu temple is an early citadel temple was erected by Rameses 3rd, 20th dynasty ,which is considered one of the best in all over the world .
Luxor got many others, and got majority of these glory signs because it was the capital for these great pharaohs and was known by thebes .
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Ancient Egypt arts
Since the beginning of the early civilization on the nile, Egypt started to produce objects carried a big touch of fine arts and continued to be developed from one period to another.
Mud bricks
Buildings houses was the main product to release and takes a shape of created design depended on the location from the Nile and how it should be strong enough to avoid the flood danger, so it was higher than the water level away little bit from the bank of the river usually built out of sun dried nile mud bricks which were easier to be made and carried than the stones using wooden mould to form the shape and the size of the bricks which have been used so far until now in many villages in Egypt.
These houses were painted usually in white and decorated with some other colors
Wooden’s works
Wooden’s have raised very early as this material was always found near to the Egyptians who lived in the nile valley and was easier to be used in their works than hard staff.
Knowing the metal such copper has helped a lot to form finer woodworks as they used axes to cut the trees and split its pieces plus the saws .
More than making house equipments out of wood ,they used to make interior coffins out of wood to bury the deceased then putting it in another stone made sarcophagus to guarantee more protection.
Other works
Stone objects
Been known from the mankind foundation but the early Egyptians people made a civilization out of the stones , the pyramids and the temples are a great witness for that, while some people were working in cutting and buildings hard stones ,there were others make fine hand made jars and vases to use them home or in temples or even to fill them with afterlife food and drinks inside the afterlife house (the tomb) .
Alabaster stone has taken a great reputation to make nice objects out of it with its green ,brown and white colors even this industry still running in the west bank of luxor as the main job for the Qurna village people.
Ivory made objects
has been used so early depended on hippopotamus bones and African elephants
Some objects like furniture pieces such as beds ,seats ,throne of the pharao were usually decorated with it .
As well cooking staff like handles of knives, spoons and others were discovered from early dynastic period .
Weaving.
One of the early hand made works that the ancient Egyptians has known .
It depended on the natural plants which grew upon the river banks while nile linen was a great discovery to make clothes out if it so they had made many fragments carried a high skill and been found in a good case in many tombs.
Also animal skin been used to made woven dresses such leopards, sheeps .
These and many other handmade works were so famous in ancient Egypt were reasons for building a great civilization with the men and the women cooperation .
Many of it still flourishing in cairo ,luxor and aswan
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Dandra temple
About 60 k.m north of luxor, locates one of the most preserved temples in Egypt Dandra temple
It is considered the only one that has an original ceiling and buildings very well preserved even it has stairs and roof, may be because it is not as old as the temples of luxor, it is just.. 2000 years old ….!!!!
It was dedicated to goddess Hathor, the one of love ,happiness and music
She was represented as a cow or a woman with 2 ears of a cow, her huge columns which has her face are massive well known by hathoric columns
The temple was rebuilt by the Greek period between 250 -30 b.c on the remains of an older temple was there related to Ramses the 3rd about 1000 b.c
No better preserved ceiling in Egypt than this one ,so some amazing details for the god ra and his solar boats ,his eye looking at earth from the sky, the other gods around it in so organized scene
Next by that, you see the long stretched body of nut ,goddess of the sky who swallows the sun disc by evening to give birth for it in the morning
The temple is well known by the scenes of the zodiac which decorate his ceiling in lower and upper floors
Osiris, god of death has there 2 rooms showing his tragedy story with his bad brother seth god of evil, after been killed by him twice, while his wife goddess ISIS was trying to get him life back again from God ra, then she together with her sister Nephtes goddess of magic share in his mummification
Queen Cleopatra the 7th the most famous one who was the last one of the Greek rulers for Egypt has a beautiful scene on the back wall of the temple which is very unique
The temple got two stairs in different designs
One has a square shape while the other is designed in straight structure and both in a very good condition and are used till now to get up and down
Some Nile cruises sail in one day tour to dandra to get couple of hours there ,and most of tourists who stay in luxor for few days ,they get a driving tour to this temple in one day of their staying time in luxor
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An amazing tour to luxor
If you look for the nature beauty mixed with the history breathing, so you look for Egypt
If you look for the good services with a friendly feeling ,you look for Egypt
…..Egypt is the mother of civilization its history goes back to more than 5000 years
The first dynasty was established around 3200 b.c and that was just the beginning of a great time called the old kingdom lasts for 6 great royal families ( dynasties)known by the pyramid builders
No one can tell you until now about the secrets of these huge buildings or how the ancient Egyptians achieved it
This great period was followed by a weak time known by the 1 st intermediate period
But by the beginning of the 11th dynasty, Egypt got its powerful time back again ,which just lasted for 2 dynasties known by the middle kingdom period, before the 2nd intermediate period starts with a famous Asian occupation called the Heksos which mean the foreign rulers
Some years after that the glory of Egypt comes back again and this time from thebes (luxor) as a great royal family shines from the south to free Egypt from this occupation which was found in delate north of Egypt for 3 hundred years
These pharaohs had established which is known by the new kingdom period and lasted for 3 dynasties and more than 5 hundreds of years was known by the golden era of the ancient Egyptians history and most of those achievements they erected still existed in different sites are considered a great witness about the advancing of the construction and arts during this period ,they got
Their main capital in thebes or luxor nowadays and that explains why we have all of these archeological sites in one town .
Some of these sightsseens in luxor:
valley of the kings
Across the Nile to the west locates beban el meluk or kings valley where the royal tombs were cut out of the mountain in straight long corridors depended on the lifetime of each ruler
Arts of that time were the best and this is very clear in the figures and the paintings on the walls
There are 64 tombs were found but it is not the end
Some egyptologists think that there is more to discover especially around
The most famous well known king Tutankhamun, which was suggested to be a part from queen Nefertiti tomb which is still hidden behind.
Most of our great kings got their house of the afterlife here
Ramsis 2nd, next to his son king Merenptah
Sity 1st beside Ramses 1st
Hormoheb and king Tutmosis 3rd
Hatshepsut and Ramses 3rd and 4th
And many others
Hatshepsut temple
One of the most important and famous funeral temples by the west bank of luxor
Was built about 1500 b.c by the famous queen Hatshepsut who got the throne of Egypt after her father king Tutmosis 1 st
It had been used for the mummification
During the history it was damaged for different reasons, but the Egyptians worked hard with different missions to rebuild what was destroyed again
Three levels of buildings are considered unique for a temple design it was dedicated for Amon by his beloved queen
While her famous expedition to Somalia is still found by the 2nd floor
Karnak temple
To the north of the ancient thebes , luxor nowadays locates this great huge building which was dedicated to god Amon ra ,the god of creation ,it was built on 65 acres of the lands through the long history of the pharaos,
In the 11 th and 12 th dynasties about 2000 b.c kings of upper Egypt started building its old remains ,but the those great pharaoha ,like Mentohoteb 1st ,Amenmhat 1st ,2nd and 3rd ,senosert 1st,2nd and 3rd
Were just the beginners of establishing a great temple after that knowing by ‘br amon ‘ which means the house of amon and was known also by ‘ibt swt ‘ which means the chosen place
Later by the new kingdom when thebes became the main capital for all of Egypt, the kings gave a big interest to this temple and considered it the capital’s temple
Even god amon became a master god in all of the area together with his wife goddes Mut and his son Khonso god of the moon they got the majority of the statues and buildings dedicated for them
New kingdom kings have built some amazing staff there ,Tutmosis 1st and 2nd
Queen Hatshepsut, Tutmosis lll and king Tutankhamun and many others in different periods add their names in the capital’s temple
Luxor temple
One of those very interesting temples in luxor ,was built by two great pharaohs Amonhoteb 3rd and Ramses 2nd
Locates direct on the nile to the east bank of luxor city
It has 14 huge papyrus shaped columns from the 18 th dynasty
His fsmous church remains in the middle still has figures for the early Christians people
One of the rare scenes thete is the one of the 4 writers of the new testament st.Mathew,Mark ,Luke and John
Abu el hagag mosque a famous building in the temple
Was built by the temple eastern side on its remains about 1000 years ago during the Fatimid family still has its annual celebration as thousands of people from different cities around luxor come to join the annual event
Alexander the great got his chapel there which comes back from 332 b.c
Collossi of Memmnon
Two massive statues were built by Amonhoteb 3rd about 1500 b.c
Were representing the entrance to a huge temple but the temple it self was suffered from natural and human reasons of destruction
The Greek called them Memmnon
After their hero Aga Memnon
Luxor museum
One of those amazing museums in Egypt, it has a great amount of pieces been found in all over egypt especially in karnak area and west bank of luxor
Was opened in December of 1975 by president Anwar el sadat
Then was renewd and enlarged by the time of president Mubarak twice later
Locates on the nile side by the city center not so far from luxor temple
Some of its contents go back to the middle kingdom for kings got names like Amenemhat and Snosert
But majority comes from the new kingdom period the 18th , 19th and 20th dynasty
Some of its remarkable things are the 2 royal mummies in 1st floor for king Ahmose the founder of 18th dynasty and the other one most suggested to be for king Ramses 1 ,after coming back from the Kandian museum as it was sold to someone who took him to Kanada ,and some years later he gave it to the Kanadian museum, after some talk with Egypt it came back home again
Valley of the nobels
In the middle of the thebean necropolis, by the west bank of luxor, the noble men dug thier tombs in deep caves by the mountain side
They were interested to get very unique design styles for their tombs which represented more daily live scenes than afterlife stories
Some of them still have amazing paintings and colors for what they used to do as jobs and hobbies
So,we find the great jobs for example the city rulers, royal scribers ,the high priests and viziers all are nicely represented in very beautiful scenes
Ra moza one of those well preserved tombs for this important thebes ruler ,who was in a high position to manage the city in the life of two pharaohs one of them was king Akhenaten, that is why we can find the figure of god aton shining on the king ,in his tomb ,plus the figure of his father king Amonhoteb 3rd
His well coloured funeral scene is very remarkable in this tomb
Rakhmera’s tomb is a very special one with a lot of lovely scenes for the workers such as carpenters, jewellery men,woodworking, mining work ,and sculptures
Plus his dancers of girls with his family offered him gifts
Sennefer’s tomb is one of the tombs which is known by vineyard tombs for what it has of grapes decorated on walls and ceilings
Userhat one of those small well preserved tombs for this scriber by the time of king Amonhoteb 2nd by the 15 th century b.c and this nice scene for the workers day off when they get their hair cut
Many other important and interesting sightsseens are very well preserved and available to be seen in luxor
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King Akhenaten (Amnhoteb 4th )
In the history of the ancient Egyptians ,there are some people shall always stay very remarkably and also full of mystery
This pharaoh king Akhenaten is one of those who had many secrets in his lifetime
He ruled in the 18th dynasty of the pharaos royal families for about 17 years between ( 1353 -1336 b.c )
He got the throne after his father king amonhoteb 3rd, he started his reign with the name of Amonhoteb the 4th which means Amon is satisfied
But soon he changed it to be Akhenaten (glory of aton) because he started to believe in god aton which was represented by the rays of the sun come down with key of the life ankh
He said that his god never imaged as a man or an animal as many other were represented befor like that.
Such this idea of believing in a different god than Amon was so brave and needed a great courage from the pharaoh, because the big power and influences of Amon priests in ancient thebes ( luxor nowadays)
They started a big revolution against the pharaoh and his followers, so he preferred to close the door of the civil war and gave his people a peaceful life when he decided to have a new capital for Egypt in the middle of Egypt as a town was called akhitaten which means horizon of aton known nowadays by Tell el amarna by El minia governorate became the capital where he lived until death with his family and all of those who believed in his god
The king had 6 daughters out of his marriage to his beautiful wife Nefertiti, while his syrian second wife princess Kya got him his only son the well known king Tutankhamun
There is another side in his life still full of mystery i mean his figure on the walls of his temples when he represented him self in a huge body with some female features ,we are still confused about the reason behind that .
The art of his time became very unique and remarkable known by realism art
We may haven’t a lot of his achievements remains ,but what we have are some amazing things either in Ramosa (the city monarch) tomb in nobles valley or in karnak temple by luxor town ,all got his figures while he stands with a long neck, and soft belly, long arms and heavy thighs, with his wife and some of his daughters
We can tell a lot about him ,but you can know more if you come to the mother of land..Egypt .
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