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Karnak botanischer Garten

Tempel Thutmosis III.: "Botanischer Garten"     http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Karnak achmenu hieroglyphen

Tempel Thutmosis III.: Hieroglyphen an einem Architrav  http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Skarabäus in karnak

Vielfach berührter Skarabäus zwischen Hatschepsuts herausgehackten Namen read more at        http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Hatschepsut-Kapelle: Karnak Tempel

Hatschepsut-Kapelle: Detail des Thot-Reliefs an der linken Wand - über ihm eine ausgehackte Kartusche mit Hatschepsuts Thronnamen Maat-ka-Re Read more at  http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Tomb of Kheruef at Elassasif Luxor-Egypt

The Tomb of Kheruef  is one of the most important, both religiously and historically, in the Theban necropolis.   It has helped us understand the history of  rituals celebrating kingship . The owner was most likely an significant individual who organized the first and third jubilees for  Amenhotep III , though he probably died in during the reign of  Amenhotep IV  (Akhenaten). He was a Royal Scribe and First Herald to the King, he was later appointed Steward to Queen Tiy. The tomb was first explored by the German Egyptologist Adolph Erman in 1885. This investigation was later published by Heinrich Brugsch in his Thesaurus Inscriptionum Aegyptiacarum in 1891. In the 1940s, Alan Gardiner also worked the tomb and then after it was robbed in the 1940s, the Egyptian Department of Antiquities in association with the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago cleared, recorded and finally published their results in 1980. The most important scenes within the to...