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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: 04/30/2005
Views: 1114
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dendara_countryside
The drive on the way to Dendara
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 689
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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: 04/30/2005
Views: 904
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dendara_ruins
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 813
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dendara_columns_hathor
Columns with the face of Hathor
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 717
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dendara_cleopatra
A relief of Cleopatra with Ptolemy XV, aka Caesarion, her son by Julius Caesar.
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 850
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dendara_ceiling
Ceiling
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 740
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dendara_ceiling_2
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 788
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dendara_ceiling_3
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 929
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dendara_crypt
The crypt beneath the temple
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 827
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dendara_crypt_2
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 759
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dendara_passage
The little passageway we had to squeeze through to get into the crypt
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 796
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dendara_crypt_lindsay
Me inside the crypt
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 842
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dendara_crypt_lindsay_2
Self portrait inside the crypt
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 755
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dendara_crypt_reliefs
Touching a relief in the crypt...uhhh oh
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 876
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dendara_crypt_reliefs_2
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 822
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dendara_crypt_reliefs_3
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 808
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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: 04/30/2005
Views: 785
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dendara_graffiti_001
Some graffiti by a 19th century tourist.
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 766
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dendara_relief
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 751
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dendara_reliefs
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 755
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dendara_ruins_4
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 883
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dendara_ruins_5
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 936
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dendara_ruins_6
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 732
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dendara_sacred_lake
The Sacred Lake, now filled with palm trees
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 797
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dendara_statue
This guy is cute
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 613
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dendara_wheel
A wheel
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 783
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dendara_dirty_romans
Those dirty Romans and their pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphics
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 715
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dendara_hathor_001
Columns with Hathor.
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 745
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dendara_dog
A dog
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 616
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dendara_ruins_2
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 546
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dendara_ruins_3
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 511
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dendara_desert
The desert outside the temple
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 563
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dendara_construction
Some construction workers
Date: 04/30/2005
Views: 817
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