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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: The Valley of the Kings

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The Valley of the Kings. The Valley was used for primary burials from approximately 1539 BC to 1075 BC, and contains some 60 tombs, starting with Thutmose I and ending with Ramesses X or XI. On February 8, 2006, American archaeologists uncovered a pharaonic-era tomb (KV63), the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamen in 1922. The 18th Dynasty tomb included five mummies in intact sarcophagi with colored funerary masks along with more than 20 large storage jars, sealed with pharaonic seals. Tailor-mad...

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: Baboons or Police Dogs

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Baboons or Police Dogs. According to ancient records, baboons were kept as "police dogs" by authorities, led on leashes and used to help catch suspects. On an Old Kingdom tomb a police baboon is shown helping to arrest a fleeing thief in the village market by seizing his leg. It was thought that baboons. Were the first creatures to pay proper religious observances.There was a belief that the most learned Egyptian priests understood the secret language of baboons. Worshiping the sun with raised hands.

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: Karnak Temple -War Scenes of Seti I

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Karnak Temple -War Scenes of Seti I. Returning from his "first campaign of victory," Seti I marches prisoners to the Egyptian border fortress at the town of Tcharu (Tell Hebua). A canal filled with crocodiles divides the two sides of Tcharu. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered both of the Tcharu fortress complexes during recent excavations. Monday, January 05, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Share with your friends. Hot air balloon in luxor. Rated "excellent" by travelers. Email : info@egyp...

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: Luxor to allow tourists visit ancient tombs at night

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Luxor to allow tourists visit ancient tombs at night. The authorities in Luxor are preparing to open the ancient royal tombs, located west of the city, for tourists at night, for the first time in history. Speaking to the German news agency DPA, Badr added that the historic Madamod temple, located northeast of the city, might also soon be open for tourists. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Share with your friends. Hot air balloon in luxor. Rated "excellent" by travelers.

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: War Scenes of Ramesses II

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War Scenes of Ramesses II. Left) photo of a palimpsest showing an Egyptian soldier slaying a Hittite prisoner from the Battle of Kadesh narrative. Superimposed over this image are the legs of the god Amun seated on a throne. Wavy lines behind his feet represent the Orontes river from the Battle of Kadesh. (Right) a drawing of the palimpsest. Monday, January 05, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Share with your friends. Hot air balloon in luxor. Rated "excellent" by travelers. Call us : 24h/7days.

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: War Scenes of Ramesses II

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War Scenes of Ramesses II. A sketch of one of the name rings with the palimpsest of the "Battle of Kadesh" narrative underneath. Unscrambling these two sets of inscriptions is a difficult task. Note the "spikes" on the oval representing crenellations or towers of a fortress. Monday, January 05, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Share with your friends. Hot air balloon in luxor. Rated "excellent" by travelers. Is your contact point with local guides ,drivers and others. Call us : 24h/7days. Http:/...

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: karnak temple

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Shasu bedouin try to flee Seti's attack by running toward the town of Canaan on a hill. At the top, two men break their weapons as a sign of surrender. a third man waves his arms in submission. Monday, January 05, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Share with your friends. Hot air balloon in luxor. Rated "excellent" by travelers. Is your contact point with local guides ,drivers and others. Your required Tour will be few steps away ,do not hesitate to pick it up . Call us : 24h/7days. X-mas and New...

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: The painted Tomb -Chapel of Nebamun Masterpiece of the ancient egyptian art in the British museum

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The painted Tomb -Chapel of Nebamun Masterpiece of the ancient egyptian art in the British museum. Today I received an interesting book from an English friend about. The painted Tomb -Chapel of Nebamun . Masterpiece of the ancient egyptian art in the British museum. The book is written by Richard Parkinson. Richard Parkinson discusses the history of paintings from the ancient to the modern times .with a detailed description of these fragments from the tomb . Nebamun fowling in the marshes,. There was ori...

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Egyptraveluxe Tours -Egypt day tours and Egypt Travel: The silence of the heron

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The silence of the heron. In ancient Egypt, for example, the Bennu bird –– a mythical phoenix, the. Manifestation or soul) of Re (the sun god) and a symbol of regeneration –– was sometimes portrayed as a heron. Not only was the heron a symbol of the rising sun, but it also represented life’s renewal on account of its habit of flying away from the rising water over neighbouring fields at the time of the Nile’s annual, ground-fertilising inundation. Saturday, January 17, 2015. Share with your friends.