This picture  can be seen three times in the subterranean crypts and three times in an associated "cult room" . The "working" lamp is once shown in the crypt. Three times pictures like this, with the air god Heh carrying the "lamp" are shown (one in the crypt, two in the cult room 1-Priest 2-ionised fumes 3-electric discharge (snake) 4-Lamp socket (Lotos) 5-Cable (Lotos stem) 6-Air god 7-Isolator (Djed-Pillar) 8-Light bringer Thot with knifes 9-Symbol for "current" 10-Inverse polarity (Haarpolarität +) 11-Energy storage (electrostatic Generator?) One of the countless mysteries of ancient Egyptians is how they were able to create elaborate works of art in underground tombs and temples without any substantial evidence of the use of torches or lamps during their creation "It's Not What it Looks Like"  

Egyptraveluxe | Private Tour: Cairo Flight and Tour from Sharm el Sheikh Fly to Cairo from Sharm el Sheikh on a private tour and make the most of your time in this world-famous city. You'll visit Cairo's most famous sites including the Great Pyramids and Sphinx, Egyptian Museum and Khan el-Khalili bazaar. As this is a private tour, you can determine the amount of time you'd like to spend at each site.

Tour Karnak Temple on a Nile Fellucca boat   Meditate yourself and cruise the Nile as a pharaoh enjoy the cool fresh breeze , and the endless green edges of the river banks , get this unforgettable trip sailing along the Nile for nearly 2hours , get your interesting stop by one of Egypt's Massive Oldest religious Complex Known as Karnak Temple built in 1900BC. Explore 4000 years of Egypt's History and Tremendous architect , In the presence of The most famous Pharaohs. after this trip you will be completely meditated , and fascinated. You will be picked up from your hotel by the fellucca (if your Hotel on the Nile river) where you go for 1 hours sailing trip along the Nile river , we will stop By Karnak Temple To tour around for nearly 2 hours to Explore in-Depth That Impressive monument Then we sail back to your Hotel(1hour sailing back).

Egyptraveluxe | Visit karnak & Luxor Temples    Take a half-day private tour with a qualified Egyptologist guide exploring the East Bank of Luxor. You'll see two of the most impressive temples in Upper Egypt - Karnak and Luxor, while learning about ancient Egyptian history from your own personal guide .Start your day with a visit to the Temples of Karnak. Walk along the Avenue of Sphinx to enter the complex as your guide explains how the massive facade was constructed. On entering the Temples of Karnak you will see each legacy left by the various pharaohs as the complex grew even larger. The deeper you go into the complex, the further back in time you will travel, with the oldest ruins dating back over 3,000 years. Walking through the Great Court into the Great Hypostyle Hall, it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the 134 columns towering above you like an ancient forest. At the rear of the complex you will find the sacred lake wh...

Luxor'S Highlights in one Day Tour Kings valley & Karnak temple IF you have a tiny time in Luxor and you want to enjoy Luxor's highlight pick up this one day tour around accompanied by your own Egyptologist tour guide to visit the famous Karnak temple the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name Ipet-isut means “the most sacred of places.” ,and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. The history of the Karnak complex is largely the history of Thebes and its changing role in the culture. The complex is a vast open-air museum and the largest ancient religious site in the world. It is believed to be the second most visited historical site in Egypt, second only to the Giza Pyramids near Cairo. It consists of four main parts of which only the largest is currently open to the general public., was built over more than two thousand years by generation after...

THE LANDMARKS As the one remaining Ancient Wonder of the World, the G IZA P YRAMIDS are one of the world's most truly spectacular sights. They date from 2570BC and are still fascinating today, especially due to their mysterious construction. Going on a tour is a must. MODERN ART The Townhouse Gallery shows the more contemporary side of Cairo, with photography, video, and film exhibitions mostly by local artists. CLASSIC ART The Egyptian Museum has been showing all of the country's great treasures for over a century. It has the world's most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, and with so much to show, a large part of it remains in storage awaiting the construction of a larger space. But what you'll find on display is enough to awe you for hours, especially the fabulous jewelry, the mummy rooms, and King Tutankhamun's stunning collection. To get the most out of the visit, you can go on a private tour. The Coptic Museum is house...

Visit The great Pyramids & the Sphinx on the run Do you dream of the pyramids but your charter flight is to Luxor ? here is your dream trip , you can fly domestically from Luxor & back in the same day it is only 1 hour flight , do not hesitate make your dream possible , you don't have to delay it until your next visit to Egypt , you take an early morning flight & you com back in the evening . you will wonder around the great Pyramids of Giza and the legendary sphinx as the massive Egyptian museum, and you end up by a walk around Cairo's famous market &old bazaars known as khan khalili , your first and last in the country- remains Cairo, a city that never fails to make a strong impression ,you will be picked up to catch your early morning flight to cairo , a van with a licensed driver and Egyptologist tour guide will take you to tour around the Egyptian museum where is the great Tutankhamun collection & all the antiques of pharaohnic Egypt , th...

Luxor oriental evening show Dinner & dance ,get your own oriental evening A taste of modern Egyptian entertainment . we will provide you with your very own galabiya (yours to keep)as we set sail down the nile on a felucca to the feast tent here you will indulge on sumptuous Egyptian buffet with unlimited local wine & beer. entertainment will normally include a belly dancer , camels & snake charmer , and the skirt dance (the dervish dance), this show is also very interesting for the kids so make sure they get this fun , the show end early around 9pm.You will be picked up every sunday at 3. 30pm in a/c van to the resort where the show is performed you will get dressed in galabia costume , to start your great evening , you will go on a fellucca ride , then you will start your feast , a buffet dinner , with unlimited local wine &beer as well as all the soft drinks , you will enjoy the folkloric oriental belly dance , the skirt dance (the dervish dance), ...

Egypt|Cairo|Tour to The Pyramids of Giza|Sphinx  ITINERARY How did the Pharaohs build the massive pyramids? That's certainly the first question that comes to your mind every time you see the Pyramids. You really wish you could have " a time machine " to travel back in time and find out by yourself. To fully appreciate the art of building pyramids in Pharaonic Egypt, you have to go back to the third millennium to discover how they built them at a time they didn't even have the wheel or the pulley. Take a very interesting tour to the Pyramids of Giza and The sphinx to see how they did that. Learn how they made a few "mistakes" before they raised the amazing Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, a feet of engineering by all means. It's not a coincidence some people consider it one the of the best structures ever made by man in all ages. To build this pyramid you have to be a first-class mason, engineer, architect, mathemati...

Day Trip to Luxor , Egypt from Marsa Alam ITINERARY pick up from your hotel in Marsa Alam and take you to Luxor by a private air-conditioned deluxe vehicle to visit the famous Karnak temple the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name Ipet-isut means “the most sacred of places.” The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built over more than two thousand years by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars. Then you will have Lunch in a local restaurant and then you will enjoy an excursion to The West Bank of The Nile River to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon) , and then visit the Valley of the Kings , where the magnificent tombs discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs. Continue the tour to ...

The workers stayed at the tombs for 10 days and then returned to their families here in the village.The village of the workers housed the masons, artists, and sculptors who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. The men working on the tombs were not slaves -- they were government workers who were paid well and provided with supplies and food.They were not allowed to have contact with the people on the east bank -- and were in fact prevented from leaving the village here because they knew the secrets of the tombs. , Their families lived here in the village with them. These were often hereditary positions, so generation after generation of workers lived here. The tiny houses often had stairs to the roof, although it is hard to imagine what this village looked like, Narrow streets -- some of them only 2-3 feet wide -- wind through the maze like collection of houses. Just up the hill from the small village is a hillside where the workers built ...

Were it still standing, the Ozymandias colossus of Ramses (celebrated by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in his sonnet "Ozymandias") would tower 20 meters above the ground, rivaling the Colossi of Memnon and the statues of Ramses carved into the mountain at Abu Simbel.  The name " Ramesseum " – or at least its French form, Rhamesséion – was coined by Jean-François Champollion, who visited the ruins of the site in 1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramses' names and titles on the walls.  The design of Ramses's mortuary temple follows the standard designs of New Kingdom temple architecture. The main building, dedicated to the funerary cult, comprised two stone pylons (gateways, some 60 m wide), one after the other, each leading into a courtyard. Beyond the second courtyard, at the center of the complex, was a covered 48-column hypostyle hall , surrounding the inner sanctuary.  As is customary, the pylons and outer walls were decorated with...

How Much Would It Cost to Build the Great Pyramid Today? Even with cranes, helicopters, tractors and trucks at our disposal, it would be tough to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Its construction 4,500 years ago is so astounding in some people's eyes that they invoke mystical or even alien involvement. But the current theory of the building of the Great Pyramid — the notion that it was assembled from the inside out, via a spiraling internal ramp — is probably still the best construction plan. Following that plan, we could replicate the Wonder of the Ancient World for a cool $5 billion. First, let's look at the blueprint: The pyramid is 756 feet long on each side, 481 feet high, and composed of 2.3 million stones weighing nearly 3 tons each for a total mass of 6.5 million tons. Legend has it that the structure was erected in just 20 years' time, meaning that a block had to have been moved into place about every 5 minutes of each day and night. That...

Located in the National Park forest of the Hunter Valley, 100 km north of Sydney, these ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been a part of the local folk lore for years. The hieroglyphs were first discovered in the early 1900′s and contains over 250 glyphs. You would think that the Australian government would protect this site for its historic value, but that is not the case. Because this site is NON-ABORIGINAL, the Australian government has no desire to protect this site. Egyptologist Ray Johnson, who has translated extremely ancient texts for the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, eventually was successful in documenting and translating the two facing walls of Egyptian characters. Which he believes is from the Third Dynasty. Here is his translation below from the book “THE OZ – EGYPTIAN ENIGMA” – By Paul White The rock walls chronicle a tragic saga of ancient explorers shipwrecked in a strange and hostile land, and the untimely death of their royal leader,...