The Dandara Temple (Qena) is known as the Temple of the goddess Hathor, the goddess of love, beauty and motherhood for the ancient Egyptians. It was built more than five thousand years ago and was considered a sacred city for the Egyptians at this time, and it is made up of several temples and religious buildings spanning an area of ​​40,000 square meters close to the banks of The Nile, although it was established by the Pharaohs, specifically in the era of the last Egyptian pharaohs, Nakht Ombo II, it has passed through many different historical periods such as the Roman and others, and the Dandara Temple is considered one of the largest temples in Egypt, and it is one of the temples that have not been affected by geographical factors or wars, and it is in In itself, it is considered a legend in the art of architectural architecture because of its magnificent pharaonic inscriptions, it’s a magnificent ceiling, and its beautiful and luxurious columns, which perfectly express the splendour of ancient Pharaonic architecture that is unmatched by any other architecture in short, it is the largest and most wonderful in all of Egypt.

The Temple consists of several large halls, shrines and several basements distributed under the building, which are characterized by the greatness of the buildings and the wonderful inscriptions that characterize the Pharaonic architecture and the strange and strange that in one of these inscriptions there is a drawing when you look at its details you think it is like a light bulb. The strangest thing is that this inscription is repeated a lot in the inscriptions on the walls. However, most scholars say that these are just inscriptions, like any ancient Egyptian inscriptions, and do not necessarily mean the shape of a light bulb.

The facade of the Temple of Hathor is one of the most wonderful ancient Pharaonic façades of the temples, with a width of 35 meters and a height of 12.5 meters. The facade of the Temple is led by impressive huge columns, the top of which is crowned with drawings of the heads of the god Hathor and the columns bearing the roof of the temple hall numbering 24 columns, and this is in the facade only in addition to a large number inside the rest The temples that make up the entire Dendera temple. These eighteen columns are surrounded by a group of rooms, which are the rooms that are used to make offerings such as food, incense, and liquid offerings such as water, silver decorations, and all things offered to the god Hathor.

Despite the passage of thousands of years on it, the Temple is still in a very new condition for its ilk from other temples similar to this period, and it appears as if it has just been built.

The roof of the Temple of Dendara is a creative masterpiece that attracts the door to tourists, as it is one of the most famous architectural masterpieces in the history of ancient Egypt. You can reach the upper ceiling through the stairs of the walls of these stairs decorated with views of the priestly procession as they ascended the stairs carrying Hathor statues in wonderful Pharaonic inscriptions.

Although it is small in size, the sacred lake is wonderful with a wall surrounding it and a ladder that slopes down to reach the water of the lake. The priests of the Temple used this lake for cleaning and cleansing works, but now, unfortunately, it has become full of trees.

The Temple is surrounded on the outside by a mud-brick wall of 1200 meters in length, and inside this wall are other things other than the Temple itself that complement its splendour and beauty. There is a cabin dating back to the eleventh family, a cabin of Ptolemaic, a Cleopatra bath, a maternity house from the thirty family, a birth house from the Roman era, and the lake. The sacred place is attached to it, with a cabin for boats, a sanatorium, a Coptic church from the fifth century AD, another birth house for King Nectanebo, the Temple of Isis, a group of wells a nilometer.

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It is a temple dedicated to the divine rebirth, which began its construction during the reign of King Nakht-Nebf I of the family of 30, as well as the second divine birth temple that was built during the reign of Augustus and which contains a prominent inscription, embodying an imaginary gate that reaches to the other world, topped by three disks of the winged sun, Then a row of cobra snakes crowned with sun disks.