| Our Holiday in Egypt ..........Page 7 |
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| Valley of the kings |
| Beginning with the 18th Dynasty and ending with the 20th, the kings abandoned the Memphis area and built their tombs in Thebes. Also abandoned were the pyramid style tombs. Most of the tombs were cut into the limestone following a similar pattern: three corridors, an antechamber and a sunken sarcophagus chamber. These catacombs were thought to be harder to rob and were more easily concealed. However, they were robbed all the same. Construction usually lasted six years, beginning with the new reign. |
| Tourist Balloons |
| Luxor |
| Perhaps the most imposing monument on the West Bank at Luxor are the famous 'Colossi of Memnon' (left). These massive quartzite (or quartzose sandstone) statues which once flanked the entrance to Amenhotep III's mortuary temple now stand virtually alone in a field at the side of the road to the valley of the kings. |
| King Tut-Ankh-Amun remains the most famous of all the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, but in fact he was a short lived and fairly insignificant ruler during a transitional period in history. Little was known of him prior to Howard Carter's discovery of his tomb and the amazing contents it held. This boy king became immortal following the discovery... |
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| Other glimpses of Luxor |
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| Sketch of Sety-II's tomb. |
| Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amun |
| Tomb of Ramessis-IV. Tut-Ankh-Amun's tomb was hidden underneath this one for over 3000 years |
| Tut-Ankh-Amun probably is the only monarch who still rests in the Valley of The Kings.... Others were either stolen or shipped to Cairo Museum...... |
| Painting on the walls of the tomb.... the colours look as bright as they might have looked 3000 years sgo...... |
| Stairs leading to a tomb..... |
| Tomb of Queen Neferteri the principal wife of Ramessis-II. |
| Queen Hatshipsut's temple. The queen was the first woman pharaoh. Wife and half sister of King Tutmosis II. She has been depicted often as a man with beard in ancient paintings.... |
| Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb is much smaller than the others.... appears to have been built in a hurry after the pharaoh's untimely death at the age of 18 or 19. |
| Shreya & Sattam in front of the entrance of the tomb... |
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| The boy-pharao |
| Valley of the Queens |
| The light & sound show at Karnak temple |
| Luxor temple..... |