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Deir El Medina Village
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Deir El Medina Village submitted by AlexHunger on 7th Jan 2006. This is the Village of the workers that built the tombs in the valley of the kings and queens. In the New Kingdom, the pharaos prefered stealth for their tombs and kept tight security on the west bank of the nile. A separate caste of artisans lived there just to built the tombs and no one else was allowed there in order to avoid tomb robbers. Even the Pharao only visited the west bank twice, once to chose the location of his tomb, and once to move in... permanently.
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Tomb of Sennofer
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tomb of Sennofer submitted by AlexHunger on 7th Jan 2006. Rock cut tomb of Senofer, 18th dynasty mayor of Thebes and "overseer of the gardens of Amun" or minister of agriculture during reign of Amenhotep II with exquisite frescoes of antique familly life.
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Tomb of Rekhmire
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tomb of Rekhmire submitted by AlexHunger on 7th Jan 2006. Well decorated 18th Dynasty aristocrat's tomb. Rekhmire was a government official under Hatshepsut. He organized the assasination of the female Pharao and was afterwards promoted to Prime Minister by the Grateful Thutmose III.
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Colossi of Memnon
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Carving
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Colossi of Memnon submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jan 2006. Large colosal statues of Amenhotep III (Father of Akhenaten). They were originaly carved out of one block but suffered greatly during the 27 BCE earthquake which leveled the Palace of Amenhotep II behind them and damaged many other antiquities in Egypt.
Memnon was a charachter in Homer's Illiad. The Romans though it was amusing to rename the colossi as one of them emited a sighing sound at sunrise on account of air excaping from a fissure, which reminded them of this myth.
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Tomb of Ramses VI
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tomb of Ramses VI submitted by AlexHunger on 7th Jan 2006. Entrance to the Tomb of Ramses VI. Photography inside not authorised. Tombs are being opened up for visits in rotations for the purpose of preservation.
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Tomb of Ramses IX
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tomb of Ramses IX submitted by AlexHunger on 7th Jan 2006. Entrance to the Tomb of Ramses IX. Photography inside not authorised. Tombs are being opened up for visits in rotations for the purpose of preservation.
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Tomb of the Sons of Ramses II
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tomb of the Sons of Ramses II submitted by AlexHunger on 7th Jan 2006. Entrance to the Tomb of Ramses II's Sons in Valley of the Kings. He lived to the age of 97 and had many sons and this was a veritable catacomb. Photography inside not authorised. Tombs are being opened up in rotation for the purpose of preservation.
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Temple of Hatshepsut
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Temple of Hatshepsut submitted by andyb456 on 22nd Feb 2005. Queen Hapshetsut's Temple. It's quite a site! Situated away from the Pharoah's tombs, the exterior is magnificent.
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Abydos Temple of Seti I
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Abydos Temple of Seti I submitted by AlexHunger on 5th Jan 2006. Abydos has some of the best reliefs in Egypt. Seti I valued quality over Quantity. Osiris was the main deity worshiped here in the 7 crypt
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Abydos Temple of Ramses II
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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Giza Valley Temple
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Giza Valley Temple submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. 4th Dynasty Temple next to Great Sphinx and leading up to Khafra's Pyramid via a causeway.
The core of the temple is limestone, but the inner and outer blocks are Aswan granite. The hypostyle hall has 16 Collumns.
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Great Sphinx
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Great Sphinx submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Egyptologists generally claim that the Sphinx has the face of Khafre, while others claim the rock formation is much older.
The Egyptian authorities are about to start a refurbishment of the neck, shoulder and breast area, hence the scaffolding.
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Khafre's Pyramid
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Khafre's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The most awesome experience is to enter the Pyramid of Khafre at Giza. Is it just a coincidence that Giza is located exactly 30 degrees and zero minutes from the equator? (Cairo is 30 degrees 1 minute North) Just think about it - some time before 2,500 BC, the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom placed the Sphinx and the great pyramids exactly one third of the way up from the equator and two thirds of the way down from the north pole. With all that space to go at - it must have been deliberate and pro...
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Khufu's Pyramid
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Khufu's Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Largest of the pyramids with a height of 146 Meters, sides of 230 Meters and an angle of 51.5 degrees. It is the only surviving 7 wonders of the world.
There are 3 chambers and a grand Gallery angled passage.
4th Dynasty Pharao Khufu was the son of Sneferu who finally mastered the art and logistics of building pyramids.
There is only one small ivory statue of Khufu in existance, which is exhibited in the Cairo museum.
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Unas Valley Temple
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Unas Valley Temple submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Unas' Valley Temple is connected to the pyramid via a long causeway.
Unas was the 9th and last Pharao of the 5th Dynasty. His Pyramid is just south of Djoser Sakkara Pyramid.
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Userkaf's Pyramid
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Userkaf's Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Userkaf was the founder of the 5th Dynasty and became Pharao by marrying Shepseskaf's half sister.
His smaller pyramid just north of Djoser's Sakkara Pyramid is made from smaller irregular blocks and infil material and is in poor shape. The casing stones are missing.
The head of Userkaf's colossal statue is in the cairo Museum.
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Sakkara Pyramid
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Sakkara Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. The world's first large stone structure built under Pharao Djoser founder of the 3rd Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
Under the Architect Imhotep, the original small mastaba was expanded in all directions to a height of 62 Meters, a length of 123 Meters and a width of 107 Meters. The stone blocks are much smaller than those of the later pyramids.
The pyramid had a casing eventually, though this is now lost.
There are numerous passages under the pyramids where a mummified leg bone of Djoser was ...
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Osirieon
Date Added: 8th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Osirieon submitted by ALexHunger on 2nd Jan 2006. Pre dynastic (Pre 3400 BCE) symbolic tomb of the God Osiris at Abydos. The mummies of all Egyptian Pharaos had to make a pilgrimage here in the 70 days before burrial.
Abydos was the border between upper and lower Egypt.
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Humeima
Date Added: 7th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Jordan
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Humeima submitted by motist on 26th May 2010. Nabataean reservoir
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Petra, Nabataean Town
Date Added: 7th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Jordan
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Petra, Nabataean Town submitted by neolithique02 on 11th Apr 2012. The Deir.
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