The Temple of Karnak, Avenue of The Sphinxes; Luxor, Egypt. May 2014.
164 The avenue of the sphinxes from The Temple of Karnak looking towards The Temple of Luxor. Includes pylons and Cleopatra's Needle/obelisk in distance shot. May 2014.
Videographed by J.M.B.
The Avenue of the Sphinx Luxor, Egypt
The Avenue of the Sphinx was a recently discovered connecting street between Karnak and Luxor Temples.
The newly discovered Avenue of the Sphinxes between Karnak and Luxor Temples
The newly discovered Avenue of the Sphinxes between Karnak and Luxor Temples
The Avenue of the Sphinxes, Luxor Temple
Originally the Avenue of the Sphinxes went from Luxor Temple to Karnak Temple; recent excavations have unearthed more of the ceremonial pathway and there is more work underway.
Egypt, Luxor and Karnak Temple, Avenue of Sphinxes, Ramesseum ... - A cura di Carmine Salituro
Egitto. Viaggio nella città di Luxor. Tempio di Luxor, Tempio di Karnak, Viale delle Sfingi, Valle dei Re, Tombe dei Nobili, Ramesseo, Tempio di Hatshepsut, Medinat Habu, Colossi di Memnone,
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Egypt. Digging at the Avenue of Sphinxes
Some say Luxor is the biggest open air museum of the world. Might be true. Also it's said that Luxor houses one third of the world's archeological treasures. For sure there are still a lot to be discovered both on the West Bank and under the city itself. To uncover new archeological objects there is a development plan that will change completely the face of Luxor city. The ambitious project is being promote by local authorities together with Egyptian Government and UNESCO. First they want to completely underneath the 2400 meters long Avenue of Sphinxes wich connects Luxor and Karnak Temples. Hard job and not easy because there are many buildings over most of the ancient avenue. But the work started already. On May 2008 I saw a team of workers pulling down the old police station beside Megashguesh mosque. On June 5th the building was already demolished. A digging machine and big trucks were starting collecting debris. Aparentely there were neither archeologists nor authorities to control the job. It surprised me because they were working right over the Sphinxes Avenue, few hundred meters away from the Luxor Temple main entrance as we can see on the video. Some locals told me in case people engaged on the job had found something archeologically important it would disappear forever. I hope not but who knows? While I was recording a man came up to me. You can see him at the last seconds of the video. He forbade me shooting without any explanation. I did, of course!
Auto Draw 2: Avenue Of Sphinxes, Luxor, Egypt
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EGYPT: Luxor Temple
Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes). It was constructed approximately 1400 BCE.
Unlike the other temples in Luxor, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the king in death. Instead Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the kings of Egypt were crowned.
To the rear of the temple are chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty, and Alexander. Other parts of the temple were built by Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. During the Roman era, the temple and its surroundings were a legionary fortress and the home of the Roman government in the area. During the Roman period a chapel inside the Luxor Temple originally dedicated to goddess Mut was transformed in to a Tetrarchy cult chapel and later in to a church.
Luxor temple was built with sandstone. This sandstone from the Gebel el-Silsila region, which is located in South-Western Egypt, is referred to as Nubian Sandstone. This sandstone was used for the construction for monuments in Upper Egypt as well as in the course of past and current restoration works.
The Avenue of Sphinxes that links the Luxor and Karnak temples is being restored.
The Mosque of Abu Haggag stands atop the ruins of Luxor Temple, just inside the entrance.
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Egypt, Luxor and Karnak Temple, Avenue of Sphinxes, Ramesseum . A cura di Carmine Salituro
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Viaggio in Egitto alla scoperta del tempio di Kom Ombo, Edfu, Dendara, Abydos e tante altre località.
EGYPT 485 - The OPET FESTIVAL - (by Egyptahotep)
The OPET Festival:
The great feast of Opet was one of the most beautiful and important festivals of ancient Egypt.
was performed between days 15 and 19 of the second month of the season of flooding.
during this festival the triad of Karnak visited the Temple of Luxor wich is at almost 3 km.The god Amon, wife & son traveled to regenerate and the pharaoh participated in the procession.
when God came to the temple of luxor the pharaoh and priests gave offerings and rituals to the god.
The statues were placed hidden into a naos of a sacred barque,and were accompanied in procession from the temple of Amun in Karnak, to the temple of Luxor,the statues were carried in those portable sacred barques on shoulders by the priests through the Avenue of the Sphinxes.other times the route between both temples was sailing the nile.
was Celebrated the Mystical Marriage of Amun & Mut, and their son Khonsu accompanied the couple.and the Rebirth was the main theme of Opet for thar reason was also a re-coronation ceremony of the pharaoh.
in this video you can see the places in Karnak & luxor and the sphinxes avenue where the procession passed, and some reliefs depicting festival scenes
Sphinx Avenue Youngtravellers's photos around Luxor, Egypt (sphinx avenue karnak luxor walk)
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• Luxor City - Luxor Governorate, Egypt
• The Valley of the Kings - Luxor, Egypt (Hot Air Balloon)
• Karnak Temple Complex - Luxor Governorate, Egypt
• Pyramids Park Resort Hotel - Cairo City, Egypt
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Luxor, Sunset, Avenue of Sphinx
Luxor Sunset time from Susana Hotel Rooftop in 2010-02-17, 6:00 pm
We are able to see the New road of Avenue of Sphinx it's wonderfl
Ancient Egyptian Majesty: Karnak and Luxor Temples
Witness the grandeur of ancient Egyptian Karnak and Luxor temples! Karnak is the world's second-largest religious structure, containing several small temples within it and even a sacred lake! Follow the sphinx-lined avenue to Luxor temple for more exploration.
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ExploreTube | Luxor Temple Travel Vlog
Largely built by the New Kingdom pharaohs Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BC) and Ramses II (1279–1213 BC), this temple is a strikingly graceful monument in the heart of the modern town. Also known as the Southern Sanctuary, its main function was during the annual Opet celebrations, when the statues of Amun, Mut and Khonsu were brought from Karnak, along the Avenue of Sphinxes, and reunited here during the inundation.
Amenhotep III greatly enlarged an older shrine built by Hatshepsut, and rededicated the massive temple as Amun’s southern ipet (harem), the private quarters of the god. The structure was further added to by Tutankhamun, Ramses II, Alexander the Great and various Romans. The Romans constructed a military fort around the temple that the Arabs later called Al Uqsur (The Fortifications), which was later corrupted to give modern Luxor its name.
In ancient times the temple would have been surrounded by a warren of mud-brick houses, shops and workshops, which now lie under the modern town, but after the decline of the city people moved into the – by then – partly covered temple complex and built their city within it. In the 14th century, a mosque was built in one of the interior courts for the local sheikh (holy man) Abu Al Haggag. Excavation works, begun in 1885, have cleared away the village and debris of centuries to uncover what can be seen of the temple today, but the mosque remains and has been restored after a fire.
The temple is less complex than Karnak, but here again you walk back in time the deeper you go into it. In front of the temple is the beginning of the Avenue of Sphinxes that ran all the way to the temples at Karnak 3km to the north, and is now almost entirely excavated.
The massive 24m-high first pylon was raised by Ramses II and decorated with reliefs of his military exploits, including the Battle of Kadesh. The pylon was originally fronted by six colossal statues of Ramses II, four seated and two standing, but only two of the seated figures and one standing remain. Of the original pair of pink-granite obelisks that stood here, one remains while the other stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Beyond lies the Great Court of Ramses II, surrounded by a double row of columns with lotus-bud capitals, the walls of which are decorated with scenes of the pharaoh making offerings to the gods. On the south (rear) wall is a procession of 17 sons of Ramses II with their names and titles. In the northwestern corner of the court is the earlier triple-barque shrine built by Hatshepsut and usurped by her stepson Tuthmosis III for Amun, Mut and Khonsu. Over the southeastern side hangs the 14th-century Mosque of Abu Al Haggag, dedicated to a local sheikh, entered from Sharia Maabad Al Karnak, outside the temple precinct.
Beyond the court is the older, splendid Colonnade of Amenhotep III, built as the grand entrance to the Temple of Amun of the Opet. The walls behind the elegant open papyrus columns were decorated during the reign of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun and celebrate the return to Theban orthodoxy following the wayward reign of the previous pharaoh, Akhenaten. The Opet Festival is depicted in lively detail, with the pharaoh, nobility and common people joining the triumphal procession. Look out for the drummers and acrobats doing backbends.
South of the Colonnade is the Sun Court of Amenhotep III, once enclosed on three sides by double rows of towering papyrus-bundle columns, the best preserved of which, with their architraves extant, are those on the eastern and western sides. In 1989 workmen found a cache of 26 statues here, buried by priests in Roman times, now displayed in the Luxor Museum.
Beyond lies the Hypostyle Hall, the first room of the original Opet temple, with four rows of eight columns each, leading to the temple’s main rooms. The central chamber on the axis south of the Hypostyle Hall was the cult sanctuary of Amun, stuccoed over by the Romans in the 3rd century AD and painted with scenes of Roman officials: some of this is still intact and vivid. Through this chamber, either side of which are chapels dedicated to Mut and Khonsu, is the four-columned antechamber where offerings were made to Amun. Immediately behind the chamber is the Barque Shrine of Amun, rebuilt by Alexander the Great, with reliefs portraying him as an Egyptian pharaoh.
To the east a doorway leads into two rooms. The first is Amenhotep III’s 'birth room' with scenes of his symbolic divine birth. You can see the moment of his conception, when the fingers of the god touch those of the queen and ‘his dew filled her body’, according to the accompanying hieroglyphic caption. The Sanctuary of Amenhotep III is the last chamber; it still has the remains of the stone base on which Amun’s statue stood, and although it was once the most sacred part of the temple, the busy street that now runs directly behind it makes it less atmospheric.
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