Saturday, June 27, 2009

King Ekhnaton



Ekhanaton, or Amenhotep IV, was the son of Amenhotep III. In the fourth year of his rule, chose the place of the new capital, and proceeded to build in the following year and was renamed, the roar of a sister, or into the horizon, now Tel el-Amarna.


Then changed the name of Amenhotep, who was meant to satisfy Amon, to Ekhenaton, which meant for the benefit of the roar.


This means that the rebellion on the cult of Amon, for the Lord into the sun as well. Has not been the work of any statues of the god, and was photographed in the form of the sun, published Ocath ending human hands, to give life to the royal family.


Has played the King and his wife, the beautiful Nefertiti, the role of mediator between God and the roar of the people. On the other hand. The art of Amarna art was unique of its kind, where he was inclined to be realistic, with some exaggeration, and succeeded in filming the intimate relationship between members of the royal family.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Karnak













Karnak the largest and most important temples
located in the Luxor, the temple is devoted to the
god Amon, who started the first pharaoh Citty I
and Ramses II completed and, in addition to the
temples, which have built up to the first century
BC Temple of Karnak is the so-called fortified
village in the northern part of the city Tiba (Luxor),
due to the famous Karnak, in fact, a group of
temples built by the beginning of the eleven`s
family in 2134 BC, when it was a good center of
Egyptian religion .This temples are surrounded
by walls are linked to each other through the
corridors of the monolithic statues guarded by two
rows of the Sphinx.
Amon temple covers an area of 140 square meters,
a huge hall with a roof on a mobile column of 122, up
more than 21 meters, lined up in the ranks of 9 rows,
this is not the inscriptions on the salient poles and
giant portals, and Obelisks Places of worship is the
greatest in history, and how it does not work when the
building andconstruction was continuing for a period in
1500 years, and called this name after the Islamic
conquest ..
Karnak, where the place means fortress or stronghold,
and the entrance to the temple is full of statues by the
animal was a symbol of the strength of the pharaohs.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Barak Obama`s Visit to Egypt



President
Barack Obama an enjoyable tour in the ancient pyramids in Giza, one of the most prominent monuments in the Egyptian and the global liberalization.

he wore white jeans and blue T.Shert and sports shoes, sun black glasses
U.S. President Barack
Obama has arrived to the Giza Pyramids
on Thursday afternoon and began to tour under the hot sun and in temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius.

Obama began the formal suit, which was replaced by a light dress, a tour of the pyramids with the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass.

The happiness was clear and the features of the U.S. president
during his keenness on the photo to a region of the pyramids and the Sphinx, which won the admiration of Obama and stop significantly more time to explore Oboualhol(Sphinx) from all directions.

And heard the U.S. president during the tour to explain to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the round "on foot" in the pyramids, which included the Pyramids of Queens and ideological pyramid, which
was
discovered recently and the excavations and composite sun.

The keenness of President Obama - who was walking in his hand a bottle of water - to capture images with Dr. Zahi Hawass and a single photo with the other visitors to the region.

Obama left Egypt after his visit to the Pyramids of Giza.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Nefertiti


One of the best known figures in the women's time of the pharaohs in Egypt.
The beautiful Queen Nefertiti, the wife of King Akhenaton and Nefertiti had supported her husband in his religious and social reforms, and then moved with him to Okhittatun or Tel el-Amarna, which was chosen by the ancient Egyptian capital of the state in religious and political revolution by calling for the worship of one God and get rid of the influence and corruption of the priests in good shape.
And appeared with him during the ceremonies and rituals, and family scenes, landscapes, even in traditional military campaigns, which it is portrayed by the elimination of enemies.
Then one of their daughters died of a Mikit - Atun, has pictures of grief in some wall drawings. After the death of their daughter, who disappeared from the royal court Nefertiti and replaced by her daughter into Merit and received the title of Great Royal wife.
Nefertiti had died in the fourth year of the rule of Akhnaton, and it is possible to have been buried in graves Mqbernha property, in the Tel el-Amarna, but could not be found on her body.
There are many famous statues of Queen Nefertiti, which reflect the characteristic of the beauty of the high.