Theban Necropolis in Luxor
Are There Pharaohs Still Alive Amid Illuster Monuments! Theban Necropolis Luxor Answers.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by Edgardo W. Olivera
Luxor West Bank
Cross to the west bank of Thebes Nile, the City of 100 Gates, to be in the heart of the history shadow, letting the gold sand carries you to be amid countless magnificent monuments. There, a light will guide you to be in the heart of the dazzling treasure of the land of the Dead, it is light of the sun pharaohs, to witness by your own eyes the solar trip, as the sun sets from the west taking the deceased pharaoh to a journey across the heavens to be reborn the following day with the sunrise and begin his afterlife that continues forever. Welcome to the land of Theban Necropolis Luxor.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by Christopher.Michel
Standing your feet in Theban Necropolis Luxor is to be in the presence of the pharaohs in their afterlife and their gods to go through living majestic monuments that do not perish no matter how much time passes and retain their luster as if they were just built, they had been set for the everlasting life to be filled with fantastic treasure. You will cross the huge mortuary temples surrounding Theban Necropolis Luxor to be the dividing line between the edge of the fields and the land of the dead, to find yourself in the middle of a wide desert with the most extensive cemetery ever conceived; it is Theban Necropolis Luxor.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by Francisco Anzola
There, you will find that the new kingdom of the ancient Egyptian civilization is still alive.
Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Sites
Luxor, Thebes, includes one-third of the world’s monuments, while Theban Necropolis Luxor contains most of Luxor artifacts; that is why you will be in the most spot of the earth that is rich in unique relics. You will be in the embrace of funeral monuments that the ancient Egyptians had interested them more than any structure they built for their daily life, believing that these artifacts were where they would live their next life.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by w_lemay
Walkthrough the secret ways of the pharaohs, where you will find at each inch great monument will travel with you back to majestic events from history to accompany a pharaoh in a time gap that will reach you to another till you will be sinking the history of ancient Egypt.
Kings in the Theban Necropolis Luxor
Certainly, you will accelerate eager to see where the bodies of the kings of the ancient Egyptian civilization have settled, the owners of that dazzling treasure that still baffles the world until now, and you will become more and more yearning when you pass over the great historical monuments to witness unique, vivid inscriptions amidst buildings with a stunning design to step on your feet amid a historical treasure that will connect you to these greats.
While you walk with this eagerness, you will find yourself walking through a sandy passage; there you will be in the heart of the sparkle of the Valley of the Kings in the Theban Necropolis Luxor.
Valley of The Kings by annemarieangelo
The pharaohs of the New kingdom had realized how these failed to protect the mummies of the Old Kingdom; later rulers opted for concealment, sinking their tombs in the arid Theban Hills and burying their mummies amid wonderful treasure in the tombs carved into rocks after taking a secret road, and after completing the rudder process, the cemetery door is completely hidden. That is how they established Theban Necropolis Luxor to contain the Valley of the Kings.
The Valley of the Kings – Theban Necropolis Luxor
Valley of the Kings in the Theban Necropolis Luxor is the most apparent philosophical idea and the most embodied image of the “afterlife” for the pharaohs, where you will cross through magnificent pharaonic 62 tombs, as this valley was used for nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, being the burial ground during Egypt’s New Kingdom (1539-1075 BC), to include Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramses II, and other great cemeteries.
In this long narrow way follow the same steps of Anini, Thutmose’s engineer, who walked alone in secret to keep the king’s secret, Thutmose I, till you arrive at the charm of the royal tombs.
Valley of The Kings by cattan2011
Visit Kings Valley
While you walk in this great historical way, the scenes of the majestic burial ceremonies will come to your mind, to feel as if you see the mummification ceremony ended, and now the mummy is at the cemetery in a great celebration, amid a procession with a team of close associates of the king and his servants, the queen and the rest of his wives and daughters and his female relatives.
They were carrying flowers, utensils of perfume, and essential oils, followed by a team of high priests and clerics who have flasks of holy water, then the coffin comes around, surrounded by senior clerics.
Finally, they carry the coffin over their shoulders and enter it into the door of the tomb, then move the mummy gently to slide down the descending path with holy water on its floor and fine sand amid its dazzling treasure.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by zolakoma
All of these details you will view by your own eyes when visiting these tombs in the Theban Necropolis Luxor, as the vibrant decorations will narrate you each detail till closing the tomb, to travel with the king to his afterlife, seeing him amid the secrets of the Dead book and his relation with the gods.
All these scenes that represent the afterlife of the kings will spark your curiosity to know about the fate of the queens in relation to the pharaohs’ beliefs. At the time, you will find your way to the valley of the Queens.
The Valley of the Queens – Theban Necropolis Luxor
Vally of The Queens by jeremy0.com
At the same way of arriving at the Valley of the Kings, you will reach Ta-Set-Neferu, which means “the place of beauty,” it is the valley of the queens where you find more than 90 known tombs, which were carved with vibrant decorations that narrate the details of the Queens in the afterlife.
The valley of the queens is the burial place for the queens from 1550 to 1070 BC. Just cross the holy cave of the god “Hathor” to attend, how Hathor brings life again to the queens, then begin your suspense tour amid the wonderful world of the queens from 18, 19, 20 Dynasty accompanying with shiny treasure and incredible decorations.
While these dazzling tombs captivate you to find it is enough to complete your tour amid this charm of decorations, the valley of the Noble will keep for you new unique suspense to see the last place of state elders and priests.
The Valley of the Nobles Theban Necropolis Luxor
valley of the Nobles by jaybergesen
In glorious farewell moments and great funeral rituals, the nobles were bidding to their final resting place. So, the valley of the nobles will get you the chance to walk in the same footsteps of statesmen when burying a priest or one of Pharaoh’s men and feel that you have entered a time gap that makes you feel as if you with them at this time and entering the mummy in the midst of the dazzling treasure and wonderful decorations, and while you are in these imaginations, you actually find yourself standing among these decorations that embody for you all the details that you have imagined it.
While you are in the astonishment of the unique architectural art of the Tombs of the Nobels, which is evident in its construction, their rare arts, tools, and their inscriptions, you will find a fragrance of history comes from your right and left, and at this moment you will realize that you are in the middle spot of the Ramesseum Temple and the Temple of Hatshepsut.
Ramesseum Temple Theban Necropolis Luxor
Touch with your feet ‘the Temple of Millions of Years of User-Maat-Ra’; to find yourself immersed in the years of history to feel as if you entered a door that carried you to another world to be in the company of the ancient Egyptians in the 19th Dynasty of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
Ramesseum Temple by Edgardo W. Olivera
The ruler of Egypt for 67 years, who is considered the most kings who built temples, Ramses II, called his massive memorial temple ‘the Temple of Millions of Years of User-Maat-Ra,’ as he aimed in building Ramesseum Temple to show his strength and the position he had reached throughout history and among the kings of the Pharaohs. That was the secret behind this greatness you will see in this massive memorial temple.
Ramesseum Temple is where you cross through the sides of a marvelous masterpiece built by the hands of the skilled ancient Egyptians to find in every inch a number of huge statues of King Ramses II and a number of inscriptions that tell in details the nature of life in that period of the Pharaonic state.
While you are in the magic of Ramesseum Temple in Theban Necropolis Luxor, a desire will come to you to find another time gab takes you to the ancient Egyptians time and live the same experience seeing another majestic historical event, that is how will be your way to Hatshepsut temple.
Hatshepsut Temple (Deir el-Bahri) – Theban Necropolis Luxor
While you walk through your way to Hatshepsut Temple, you will stop in confusion, seeing a temple rises in terraces amid a vast natural amphitheater in the Theban Necropolis Luxor, while its shadowed verticals of its colonnades drawing power from the enormous crags overhead.
Hatshepsut’s Temple at Deir-el-Bahri, Egypt
by David Berkowitz
That is how the majestic view of the Hatshepsut Temple will appear at first glance. At that time, you will realize how powerful and extraordinary this woman and her powerful position among the pharaohs, to enter, guaranteeing that you will see magnificence.
Three layers gradient in the valley, which take a solo special architectural design with covered walls and vibrant, colorful decorations that almost scream to tell you each majestic historical event, to find your soul fly back to around 3500 years ago to be in the period of a successful ruler of the XVIII Dynasty, Hatshepsut.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by thatyoungman
Just begin your suspense tour in the courtyard of the temple to walk through the garden of Amun, where Queen Hatshepsut sent a mission to the country of Punt to import incense trees and plants grown in the garden, to find your way into the time gap of Hatshepsut reign.
Statues on the sides of the road out of Hatshepsut Temple will lead you to be in the 1st temple in the Deir el-Bahri area in Theban Necropolis Luxor.
Mentuhotep Temple – Theban Necropolis Luxor
Once you finish your way with the colorful stone statues of King Manuhotep II, who ruled ancient Egypt from (2061 – 2010 BC); and the founder of the Eleventh Dynasty, a marvelous view will take your attention to be in the heart of the first temple in this area. Mentuhotep II was the first to take advantage of the sacred area of the god Mento, Deir el-Bahri, to erect a funerary temple for him.
His temple inspired the temples that came after him, such as the temple of Hatshepsut and the temple of Thutmose III. While you walk in this area that was a sacred place for the ancient Egyptians even before they built temples, you will find your feet touch the prints of the pharaohs, and while the suspense will lead you to feel that there is more majesty you do not discover yet, two massive pharaohs’ statues will meet your way.
Colossi of Memnon – Theban Necropolis Luxor
Magnificent colossi are rising majestically about 18m from the plain; that is how Amenhotep III invites you to his greatness as he sits on his throne with his hands spread out on his knees and looking towards the east with imagery of his mother, his wife, the god Hapi, and other symbolic engravings.
Theban Necropolis Luxor by Ray in Manila
These Two Large Giants, which each cut from a single block of stone and weighing 1000 tons, are Steadfast over thousands of years; since 1350 BC till now, to lure the world viewing the grandeur of the ancient Egyptian civilization, so that everyone stands in complete amazement in the presence of Amenhotep III, uncovering the secret of the Name of the Colossi of Memnon to find yourself in the place of the ancient Romans rulers picnic.
This greatness of Amenhotep III’s statues will take you to another magic to live the suspense moments of the discoverers of the cemetery of Deir al-Bahari in 1871.
The Hidden Cemetery of Deir al-Bahari – Theban Necropolis Luxor
Deir al-Bahari from the Air
by Son of Groucho
It will be a great surprise when you walk through the great Pharaonic tombs in Deir al-Bahari that contain 40 mummies, including the mummies of kings from the 17-21 Dynasty and next to them their treasures amid a massive amount of Pharaonic inscriptions that will reveal to you more secrets about the next life and the Book of the Dead to complete your tour of the pharaohs’ afterlife.
In suspense mixed with amazement as a result of what you will see in the land of Theban Necropolis Luxor, you will complete your tour to find another pharaonic charm that will appear in front of you; it is a great ancient Pharaonic architecture with majestic historical walls that still retain their colors. There you will be in the most remarkable temples in Theban Necropolis Luxor.
Medinet Habu – Theban Necropolis Luxor
In front of you, the Mountain of the Lord of Life, to go through this holy land and cross the gold and copper gates, to go beside the towers of stone that reaching to the sky, to find yourself in the secrets of the land of a special sacredness for the ancient Egyptians because they believed that the eight creation deities had landed there, where you travel to the era of King Amenhotep I and lives glorious historical moments that were written by themselves until reaching to the era of the Ptolemais and the Romans, as the inscriptions and buildings were added in Medinet Habu until the Ptolemaic and Roman era.
Medinet Habu by transitpeople
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You only need to cross the outer wall of the temple that was built by Ramses III at the height of 17.7 meters, then pass the other inner wall until you reach the giant gate to be in the heart of the largest and most important fortified temples in ancient Egypt to find your feet walk over the years with the temple walls witnessing many drawings that tell stories of the wars of King Ramses III and stories about the military campaigns that he set out from Egypt and the enemies who defeated them.
Medinet Habu temple in Luxor
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So, Theban Necropolis meaning is to walk through the wonderful world of the pharaohs, where you meet their artifacts amid rare charm rushes from the ancient Egyptian civilization, to touch your soul to spend a time in the new kingdom, and then you will find desire attacks you, wishing if a miracle comes to get you the chance to see the workmen and the builders who had created all that dazzle, while a door will open in front of you to cross it finding yourself in the heart of those workmen’s village.
Deir el-Medina – Theban Necropolis Luxor
Deir el-Medina by Olaf Tausch
In the southern part of Theban Necropolis Luxor, and close to the tombs of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor
(southern Egypt), the builders of the royal tombs (painters, sculptors, and workers) settled in a village they called “Sit Maat” meaning “Place of Truth,” now known as “Deir el-Medina” and they wrote down the details of their daily lives on pottery slabs, starting from organizing work, passing through disputes, problems, and crimes, to funeral rites in cemeteries.
You will see yourself walking through a real integrated Pharaonic village in Theban Necropolis Luxor to simulating their lives in their homes to find their furniture and utensils as they were; so you complete your tour inside those Pharaonic streets. Then, you will meet the details and letters that they have written by their own hands to tell you how these builders lived, who created all the majestic temples and tombs that I passed through with unique treasures.
