81 – Pyramids of the Fifth Dynasty

Pyramids of the Fifth Dynasty By the end of the Fourth Dynasty, the era of the great stone pyramids ended, and the rest to this day. Still, the kings of Egypt did not stop building the pyramids, but at lower costs and with cheaper materials and smaller sizes, which offered many of them to demolish […]

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80 – A grandson of Imhotep, the first architect of Egypt

A grandson of Imhotep, the first architect of Egypt A young Egyptian engineer named “Walid Arafa” designed and implemented a mosque in a small village in the governorate of Sohag the past year. I have rarely seen anything like it in the whole of mainland Egypt. The mosque’s size is small in proportion to its […]

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79 – Karnak Temples Complex

Karnak Temples Complex The Karnak Temple Complex, world-famous as Karnak, is an enormous collection of temple ruins, chapel places, huge columns and other buildings. It is located 3 km from Luxor, and its name in ancient Egypt was Ipet-isut (“the most chosen place”), which is the main place of worship for the Theban Triad, whose […]

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78 – A wooden statue of Tuya, the mother of Queen Ti

A wooden statue of Tuya, the mother of Queen T, who was an important figure of her time and the singer of God Min in the New kingdom The eighteenth Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III,1350 BC. Min is the god of fertility and reproduction, who fertilizes the land to allow the harvest. As we see […]

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77 – The names of the mummies that will be transported in the mummies procession

The names of the mummies that will be transported in the mummies procession 1- Ramesess II 2- Ramesess III 3- Ramesess IV 4- Ramesess I 5- Ramesses VI 6- Ramesses IX 7- Tuthmosis I 8- Thutmose II 9- Thutmose III 10- Tuthmosis IV 11- King Seqnen Ra 12- Queen Hatshepsut 13- Amenhotep I 14- Amenhotep […]

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76 – Wonderful scenes of daily life from the tomb of Minister Rakhmi Ra,

Wonderful scenes of daily life from the tomb of Minister Rakhmi Ra, His tomb was found among the Al-Ashraf Cemeteries on the western mainland in Luxor, and the meaning of the name Rakh Mai Ra (The Knower is like Ra)   He was a minister during the reign of Thutmose III and Amenhotep the Second […]

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75 – Nilometer, Elephantine Island, Aswan, southern Egypt.

Nilometer, Elephantine Island, Aswan, southern Egypt. The ancient Egyptians relied on floodwater as the beginning of the agricultural season, and they knew that its water makes the land more fertile and suitable for agriculture, but sometimes when the flood comes severe and damages a large part of the agricultural crop, or the water level decreases […]

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74 – A rare appearance of a giraffe in a view from the tombs of the nobles in Luxor

A rare appearance of a giraffe in a view from the tombs of the nobles in Luxor, The cemetery of Rakhmi Ra, the minister of King Thutmose III of the family 18 of the modern state, and the view are considered part of a large wall represented by scenes of the tribute brought from some […]

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73 – Avenue of Sphinxes

The Rams Road is the road that connects the Luxor Temple with the Karnak Temple. It used to start from the beach a spacious street, with statues of sphinxes that we find in the Karnak temples represented in the form of a sphinx with a ram’s head, and the ram here symbolizes the god Amun, […]

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72 – King Senusret III (Sesostris III)

King Senusret III (Sesostris III) The original name is (S that Usert), which means the god Usert, and the royal name is (Khao Ka Ra), which means the power of the coming Ra. He is the fifth king of the Twelfth Dynasty (the Middle Kingdom) and is considered one of the Egyptians’ most important and […]

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