Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Historical Notes On The Luxor Temple .. Part ( 2 )

As we see it to-day, the great temple, 853 feet in length, and 181 feet across at its greatest breadth, belongs almost entirely to the later days of the 18th dynasty and the earlier half of the 19th dynasty, the chief work visible being that of Amenophis ( Amenhotep ) III of the earlier, and that of Ramses II of the later, dynasty .

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Luxor temple .. About the temple .. Part ( 1 )

Of the two great temples of Thebes ( east bank ), that of Luxor Temple, though by no means so imposing as its vast neighbour at Karnak, should perhaps be the first to be visited .

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Some Of Other Small Buildings .. The Karnak Temple Complex .. Part ( 24 )

We now leave the enclosure of Montu by the south-eastern gate, built by Nectanebis II, and re-enter the great enclosure of Amen-Rê and proceed eastwards, passing a sgrine of the Ethiopian Pharaoh Shabaka, consisting of a twelve-columned hall, with tables for offering ranged round its brick walls .