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Our Egyptologist, Olette Freriks, will accompany you during this tour. Tour details: PRIVATE Excursion We will collect you in front of your Hotel or boat. After crossing the bridge we will see the Collosus of Memnon, huge statues build by Amenhotep III. This was the entrance of the larges temple of "million years" which was destroyed by an earthquake. After this you will see the ticket office, many of the places which you would like to visit sell their tickets here. |
Along the road lies the Village of Qurna. In this village are many tombs of servants of the Pharaonic era. The tickets you buy always give entree for 2 tombs. For example: Sennefer & Rechmire, Menna & Nacht for the tomb of Ramose you need to buy a searate ticket.
All tombs are number starting with:TT what is short forTheban Tombs
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Sennefer. TT96 Sennefer's career appears to have developed during the reign of Amenhotep II (about 1439-1413 BC, during Egypt's 18th Dynasty), when he became mayor of Thebes, which was during his time a most important Egyptian city. Egypt was very prosperous, and because of the importance of its Temples, particularly that of Amun to whom Pharaoh owed his brilliant victories, considerable revenue flowed into this particular region. Several well-known names, particularly famous for the magnificent tombs they built on the west bank at Thebes, belong to this period, and Sennefer is one of them. His tomb, known by 19th century travelers as the "Tomb of the Vineyards" because of the decorative theme of its ceiling, attests to the fact that he received a fair share of these proceeds.
The tomb has a large, rectangular courtyard enclosed by a rough rock wall finished with plastered mud brick. Here, a superstructure, which is referred to as a funerary chapel, is considerably damaged. It consists of a hall, passage and pillared inner hall. On the east wall of this room are three statue niches. It communicates with a single pillared hall. Yet the paintings in the funerary chapel are of even a higher quality than those within the substructure of the tomb. The most important of these is a scene that shows Amenhotep II blessing the harvest and is the earliest of only five such known scenes. However, this superstructure has, since 1905, been used to store artifacts from other tombs in the area. It was even used to store the treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb. Perhaps visitors will someday have access to this area though, for a Belgian team of conservators are currently working on the paintings. From here, a pit allows entrance to the tomb's substructure. |
Rechmire TT100 While it may be non-royal, the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100) is one of the most interesting on the West Bank at Luxor. Located on the southeastern slope of the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna hill, it is one of the largest of the private tombs.
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Menna TT 69 The tomb of Menna (Theban Tomb 69) is one of the finest painted, non-royal Egyptian tombs open to the public today. Its decoration represents the height of ancient Egyptian painting, a visual textbook of what the Egyptians could do in that medium. Over the next two years, the Tomb of Menna Project will study, document and conserve the tomb using a number of new technologies in the field of Egyptology. The goal of the Tomb of Menna Project is to join traditional methods of visual analysis with new scientific methods to preserve and record this exceptional tomb for future generations. |
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Nakht TT52 these tombs of the high officials and and nobles of Egypt are practically unique within Egypt. While their decorative plan usually includes religious themes, they also often include scenes of ordinary life and in brilliant colors that could only survive in a tomb. They represent one of our most important sources of information on the lives of the more ordinary Egyptians. In fact, royal tombs can be monotonous, because their decorative plans follow fairly set guidelines. Private tombs can be very diverse.
The tomb is unique in that, during the 1980's, experimental restoration and protective measures were employed to preserve the tombs decoration. This process, involving sophisticated technology requiring complete insulation with sheets of glass over all of the vestibule walls (the only part of the tomb that is decorated), ended up being to expensive and difficult for large scale use. |
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Ramose TT 55 Ramose was a Governor. The tomb was unfinished, probably because Romose started construction on a new one at Amarna when his pharaoh moved the capital to his new city. But because of these changing times, the tomb is significant in that the artwork begins to show the transition to the new artistic style of Amarna. Also, because it was abandoned, it gives Egyptologists evidence on the different stages of carving and decorating a tomb. |
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Deir-el Medina The site has yielded a wealth of textual material providing information about the way these people lived, their marriages, inheritances, divorces, how they sought legal redress, advice from the gods. In addition to papyri, large flakes of limestone were used by scribes as note pads. Thousands of these ostraca were found inscribed with letters, notes, records, and many other kinds of evidence concerning the lives of the men and their families, most dating from the 19th and 20th Dynasties.
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For much of the time Deir el-Medina was a community of women. They were entrusted with many responsibilities of their own, and in one case a foreman’s wife paid out the workmen’s wages in her husband’s absence. Many of the wives may have been literate, since messages were sent to them at times, when it is doubtful that scribes were present, who might have translated the messages. Many of the women also held religious titles such as chantress, singer or priestess, including duties in major temple cults outside the village. There are stelae showing women making offerings venerating their ancestors. At least one example is recorded of the wife of a scribe who willed distribution of goods from her estate to her sons, indicating that women had legal rights.
If you like to know more about this trip; an presentation of this tour is possible the day before you take this excursion.
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The great mortuary temple of Ramses III dominates the site at Medinat Habu. Second in size only to Karnak, the main pylon and well-preserved wall carvings record military campaigns against the sea peoples and depict bound captives from Syria, Nubia, Palestine, and other border countries. Vivid colors on columns and ceilings are quite well preserved. A ceremonial palace complex is adjacent.
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