Workers restoring the avenue of Sphinxes in order to open in March [Mohamed Wassim]
Posted on 02/15/2010 11:47:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...The 2,700-metre-long avenue of sphinxes was built during the reign of Pharaoh Nectanebo I of the [30]th-Dynasty. It replaced one built formerly in the 18th Dynasty, as Queen Hatshepsut (1502-1482 BC) recorded on the walls of her red chapel in Karnak Temple. According to this, she built six chapels dedicated to the god Amun-Re on the route of the avenue during her reign... The excavation team unearthed a large number of fragmented sphinxes that are now undergoing restoration in an effort led by SCA consultant Mahmoud Mabrouk. Once restored, they will be placed on display along the avenue... Archaeologists have unearthed a number of Roman buildings and workshops for the manufacture of clay pots and statues, as well as several reliefs. One of the reliefs bears the cartouche of the famous Queen Cleopatra VII (51-30 BC).... remains of Queen Hatshepsut's chapels, which were reused by the 30th- Dynasty Pharaoh Nectanebo I when the sphinxes were installed, have been found, along with the remains of Roman wine factories and a huge water cistern... Hosni and Hawass installed the piece of red granite belonging to the naos of Pharaoh Amenemhat I, who reigned from 1991 to 1962 BC in the Middle Kingdom, in its original place in the Temple of Ptah at Karnak. This naos was returned to Egypt last October by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum purchased the piece from an antiquities collector in New York expressly in order to return it to Egypt... The piece of the naos was offered to the Metropolitan Museum by a New York collector who claimed to have bought it in the 1970s. Arnold believed that the granite fragment must join with the naos in Karnak, which scholars believe was moved there during the New Kingdom.
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Workers restoring the avenue of Sphinxes in order to open in March [Mohamed Wassim]
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Nice, more missing parts from Hatshepsut's Red Chapel, which was dismantled during the New Kingdom. I corrected one error in the article (one that was glaring, there could be more I missed). |
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Ancient Egyptians and Romans were the original recyclers ping! :-)
I was reading about this avenue of sphinxes a few days ago, wish I could see it in person some day!
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know were it goes
But it’s only me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the avenue of broken sphinxes
Where the Pharoah sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk alone
We can then march to the White Sphinx where we can show umbrage to Omummy!
:’) Apparently proctology was a big deal in pharaonic Egypt.
Moses, Moses...
Granite head of King Nectanebo I, now on display at the Louvre. | Chapel of King Nectanebo I Uncovered in Ancient Heliopolis, Egypt | Robin Ngo | April 15, 2015
Note: this topic is from . One of *those* topics. Update to the ping message.
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258. Ramses III is identical with Nectanebo I of the Greek authors. He lived not in the twelfth but in the fourth century.
259. In Herodotus there can be no reference to Ramses III, because the historian lived before the pharaoh. The history of Egypt by Herodotus, though defective in details, is more nearly accurate than that of the later and modern historians, because he placed the history of the Eighteenth, the Ethiopian, and the Nineteenth Dynasties in fairly accurate order.
Immanuel Velikovsky, "Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History", June 10, 1945
The avenue of the what?!?
Oh...sphinxes.
Never mind.
“Let’s go out to Egypt ‘cause it’s in the plan, sleep beside the pharaohs in the shifting sand. We’ll look at some pyramids and check out some heads...
Don’t forget your sleeping bag
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