dendara_checkpoint
A checkpoint on the way to Dendara. Check out the huge portrait of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. These things are all over Egypt...can you say cult of personality?
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 15:59:50
A checkpoint on the way to Dendara. Check out the huge portrait of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. These things are all over Egypt...can you say cult of personality?
dendara_countryside
The drive on the way to Dendara
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 15:53:14
The drive on the way to Dendara
dendara_entrance
The entrance to the Temple of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of fertility. This was started near the end of the reign of the Egyptian pharaohs. Construction was continued under the Ptolemies and completed by the Romans.
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 17:42:53
The entrance to the Temple of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of fertility. This was started near the end of the reign of the Egyptian pharaohs. Construction was continued under the Ptolemies and completed by the Romans.
dendara_columns_hathor
Columns with the face of Hathor
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 17:49:45
Columns with the face of Hathor
dendara_cleopatra
A relief of Cleopatra with Ptolemy XV, aka Caesarion, her son by Julius Caesar.
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:49:48
A relief of Cleopatra with Ptolemy XV, aka Caesarion, her son by Julius Caesar.
dendara_crypt
The crypt beneath the temple
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:23:06
The crypt beneath the temple
dendara_passage
The little passageway we had to squeeze through to get into the crypt
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:23:19
The little passageway we had to squeeze through to get into the crypt
dendara_crypt_lindsay_2
Self portrait inside the crypt
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:20:25
Self portrait inside the crypt
dendara_crypt_reliefs
Touching a relief in the crypt...uhhh oh
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:22:29
Touching a relief in the crypt...uhhh oh
dendara_destroyed_reliefs
Early Christians destroyed most of the reliefs inside the temple because the Egyptian gods were pagans and all that stuff. Whatever, it would have been nice to see them before they were destroyed!
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 17:55:29
Early Christians destroyed most of the reliefs inside the temple because the Egyptian gods were pagans and all that stuff. Whatever, it would have been nice to see them before they were destroyed!
dendara_graffiti_001
Some graffiti by a 19th century tourist.
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:08:47
Some graffiti by a 19th century tourist.
dendara_sacred_lake
The Sacred Lake, now filled with palm trees
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:53:21
The Sacred Lake, now filled with palm trees
dendara_dirty_romans
Those dirty Romans and their pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphics
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:56:49
Those dirty Romans and their pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphics
dendara_desert
The desert outside the temple
Date/Time: 2005:04:16 18:31:10
The desert outside the temple
