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Pharaonic
tourism
Dandara's
temple
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It is considered one of the most beautiful ancient
Egypt ian temples , this is because it has all
artistic featwes starting from the age of pharaoh
families to the emergence of chiristianity |
It
stands in the western bank of the nile river , 5 km away
from qena , it's history goes back to the fourth family .
however the building is roman greek architects king
petolomixl started building it in 116 bc . the working
continued about 150 years and it was decorated in the age of
romans in 34 ad , the temple stands our about 20 acre and
there is anather supplementary temple about 350 m away from
the main temple.
Asna's
temple
it was
built in the age of Romans so that the religious ceremony to
worship god khnoum can be done emperor kladious started the
building . nowadays , the remaining part of the temple is
the
completed hall of the colums it is considered of 24 columns
with crowns and decorated with paintings and engravings that
belonged to the age of petolomi iv 's 170 bc . the rest of
the hall was decorated in the age of romans , between the
first century and the third one . beside the temple's gate ,
there is a small room that was used by monks to wash and
clean before praying.
Qeft
's temple
the god
of Qeft was " god meen " , the master of the eastern descent
it has human shape , with a whip in his right hand and two
feathers on his head . the temple was built in the fourth
family's age then , king babi of the sixth family rebuilt
it.
in 1893
- 1849 , batri , discoveries in the temple showed many
mounments such as an antique statue of god meen , statues
for the desert's animals and the red sea shells , and also a
huge granite trinity that shows ozimandious sitting
between isis and hathor , these mounments and status are now
shown in Egyption museum |