EGYPT.

We visit Egypt 3 or 4 times each year. We have many friends in and around Luxor.

Now you can see a selection of Photo�s taken in 1998.

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MORTUARY TEMPLE of RAMSES II

KARNAK TEMPLE

LUXOR TEMPLE

Dedicated to Amun-Min, Mut and Khonsu, Luxor Temple was the Harem of the South, where Amuns consort Mut and their son Khonsu resided. Each spring a flotilla of barques escorted Amuns effigy from Karnak Temple to this site at Luxor for reunion with Mut in an Optet or fertility festival.
The Temples founder was Amenophis III (1417-1379 bc), work there was also carried out by Tutankhamun and Horemheb. To this Ramses II (1304-1237 bc) added a double colonnaded court and a Pylon flanked by obelisks and colossi.

TOMB of AY

The tomb  was built for Tutankhamuns successor in a remote part of the Theban Hills called the Western Valley, Locals named the valley "Wadi Monkey" after the caches of mummified baboons found there. Ay had earlier been Akhenatens vizier and today it is thought that Ay murdered Tutankhamun the
boy King.
The Photographs Show the Tomb Paintings (very rarely photographed using a Flash ,special permission was given to us ), showing Ay the deceased spearing fish and birds, also the Pink granite Sarcophagus.

HOUSE of HOWARD CARTER

TEMPLE at the city of HABU

Copyright © J.Child 1999