Sunday, November 8, 2009

The best of Egypt blogs

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http://egyptwildlife.blogspot.com/ birds of Egypt
http://egyptswildlife2.blogspot.com/
birds of Egypt
http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/ photos from around Luxor Egypt
http://www.nilelife2.blogspot.com/ photos from around Luxor Egypt
http://egyptdragonflies.blogspot.com/ Dragons and damsels
http://insectsonwings.blogspot.com/ butterflies and bugs
http://myegypttours.blogspot.com Tombs and temples of Egypt
http://tonythevolunteer.blogspot.com/
www.myegypt.co.uk my website

Friday, November 6, 2009

Karnak Temple







Barque Chapel of Seti I in the first court yard

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


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4 views of Hatshepsuts obolisk







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Karnak sacred lake

I reckon they also had flower tubs

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http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak.htm
Read up on karnak temple.
this blog has 170 photos of the Temple
View of Hatshepsut Temple from Karnak

Luxor temple is so small after Karnak temple


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http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak.htm
Read up on karnak temple.
this blog has 170 photos of the Temple
View of Hatshepsut Temple from Karnak

Luxor temple is so small after Karnak temple


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The escarab beetle looks over the sacred lake





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Pyramids of Egypt

Pyramids at Giza one of the seven wonders of the world.



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I heard there was a few birds inthis area, And all I wanted was a photo of the pigeon, for my http://nilelife.blogspot.com/





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

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



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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

My blogs

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http://egyptwildlife.blogspot.com/
http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/
http://myegypttours.blogspot.com Tombs and temples of Egypt
http://tonythevolunteer.blogspot.com/
www.myegypt.co.uk my website

Friday, September 11, 2009

Gebel el-Silsila

These tombs are between Comombo And Esna
Taken from wikipedia,

Gebel el-Silsila is 65 km north of Aswan, where the cliffs on both sides of the Nile narrow. The name Kheny (or sometimes Khenu) means "The Place of Rowing". It was used as a quarry site from at least the 18th Dynasty to Greco-Roman times.

On the west bank is a rock cut shrines for Horemheb, Seti I, Ramesses II and Merenptah.

Many of the talatats used by Akhenaten were quarried from here, and used in buildings at Luxor and Amarna. Akhenaten's sculptor Bek oversaw the opening of a stone quarry here.

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This is the pylon in Edfu Temple most Temples have two some have three,
also a few of the pylons have been demolished some say the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
was destroyed by the Pharaos others say by earthquake. most of the stones from the Gebel el-Silsila where used to construct other buildings. but originaly sat inside these huge pylons the smallest is 100 ft high


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Comombo Temple Komombo Temple

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm








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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Esna Temple of Horus

Read up on the Temple on http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/edfu.htm
My photos are a walk through the temple. click on the photos to Enlarge.




























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