Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt

32
Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt

description

Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt. Some not so typical images of the Great Sphinx. Temple of Hatshepsut. Images of the inside of the Temple of Hatshepsut. The Tomb of Nefertari. The Layout of the Tomb of Nefertari. Luxor Temple. Karnak Temple Complex with the - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Transcript of Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt

Tour of the Wondrous Sites of Ancient Egypt

Some not so typical images of the Great

Sphinx.

Temple of Hatshepsut

Images of the inside of the Temple of Hatshepsut

The Tomb of Nefertari

The Layout of the Tomb of Nefertari

Connecting these 2 Magnificent Temple areas is the Avenue of the Sphinxes.

It is 3 km long and contained about 2000 Sphinx statues that line each side of the road!

Luxor Temple

Karnak Temple Complex with the

Temple of Amun

The Luxor Temple

Ram-headed sphinxesThe mythical lion-bodied sphinx is associated with the king and the Sun god. Those with ram heads, known as criosphinxes, are linked with Amun, chief deity of the Thebes region.

The Temple of Amun-Ra

Temple of Ramses II and Nefertari in their present location.

Temple of Ramses II

http://news

The statue of Ramses lights up on his birthday and his coronation day as it

has every year for 3200 years.

How the temple would

have looked when it was

first built.

Temple of Nefertari (wife of Ramses II)