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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Luxor Museum


Luxor Museum:
it's situated between the Karnak and the temples of Luxor the museum includes collections of ancient Egyptian monuments that were found in the city of Luxor and the surrounding areas.
 Luxor Museum


Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Alexandria




























corniche of Alexandria


Alexandria is considered the second largest city in Egypt, which is too similar to the cities of the Mediterranean its cultural heritage and atmosphere make it diverse from the rest of the country, although it is from Cairo only 225 km


"The Great Alexander "  found it in 331 BC. it became capital of Egypt Greek Romanian, it has got  a terrific cultural position .the symbol of  "Pharos" beacon , this  beacon is legendary which was one of the Seven Wonders .Alexandria was the scene of a prominent love story between the "Cleopatra and Mark Antony," it was also  the center of science and knowledge in the ancient world.

But ancient Alexandria dropped and dropped after that, due to (Napoleon coming), he found it as a small populated fishing village. With the beginning of the nineteenth century Alexandria played a new turn as a center for the expansion of Egypt's commercial and maritime, it was immortalized in some books and was settled by generations of immigrants from Greece, Italy and the east and made it a global center for trade and  culture, was described " "Lawrence Durrell "as" the capital city of (European Asia) "and today the implications of each of those previous ages are still remaining.




Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Abu el hagag mosque

Abu el hagag mosque
Abu el hagag mosque:
it's situated in the north east where is now Abu el hagag mosque rest of the parts of the temple that was built by (Amenhotep III).it begins with hall has huge columns of four peel column that is divided into two rows and get then to the large courtyard open and surrounded by three sides by two rows of columns,and then get to the colonnade and a 32 column - advanced inside the temple to get to the room of the holy boat .the Great Alexander managed to build a small cabin bears his name in the compartment of (Amenhotep III). lastly we come to the Holy of Holies, where the holy statue room with four columns.

luxor temple

luxor temple
luxor palace:
that temple belongs to the god (Amon-Re) who was celebrating his wedding day with his wife (mout). every year the procession of the God(amon-Re) moves from the Temple of Karnak through path of the Nile to Luxor Temple. the temple was built by two pharaohs (Amenhotep III )and (Ramses II) . the entrance of the temple begins with edifice that was built by (Ramses II) and has two massive statues they represented him as sitting. The temple is preceded by two obelisks. one obelisk still stands, and other adorn the square (el Concorde) in Paris, following this edifice courtyard of (Ramses II ) that is surrounding on three sides by two rows of columns in the form of supported package papyrus

introduction ( part 2)

Luxor has a unique aspect makes it much distinguished than other parts over the world, when you take around in it you actually feel that  this city combines between the past and present at one time.every area in luxor city witnesses the greatness of the ancient Egyptians since thousands of years B.C.it remained the place of power between 2100 to 750 B.C and  here we know the secret of the desire that any visitor feels towards this immortal city on the banks of the Nile. 
On the east bank of the Nile there is,
 - Luxor Temple.
 - Karnak Temple. 
 - Luxor Museum on the West Bank of the Nile statue of "Memnon".
 - Valley of the Kings and queens tombs.

 - funeral temples.
 - nobles graves. 
 -The Tombs of "Deir El Medina".


program of the sound and light in the Temple of Karnak

program of the  sound and light in the Temple of Karnak,
this program is watched  through the remarkable display that narrates the  story of building this wonderful monument,  through the word ,light and music .this display is played twice a day the spectators watch this from the stands for this purpose and this program is presented by languages  English, french, Arabic and Germany.

the holy lake

the Holy Lake
It is situated outside the main hall where there is a large statue of (ghran) from the reign of King (Amenhotep III)  it was using in cooking.