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The sun-boat or funeral-boat of Pharaoh Cheops.The 1224 individual parts of the boat were discovered in 1954 in a deep ditch next to the Cheops pyramid. Such boats were used in the ritual voyage of the dead Pharaoh along the Nile. Cedar wood, L:46 m
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The sun-boat or funeral-boat of Pharaoh Cheops.The 1224 individual parts of the...

Small pyramids in the Gizeh area, seen from the Sun Temple of Pharaoh Nyuserre (5th dynasty, 2494-2345 BCE) at Abu Ghurab.
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Small pyramids in the Gizeh area, seen from the Sun Temple of Pharaoh Ny...

Remains of the Sun Temple of Pharaoh Nyuserre (5th dynasty, 2494-2345 BCE). View of the Western Desert.
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Remains of the Sun Temple of Pharaoh Nyuserre (5th dynasty, 2494-2345...

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (1503-1452 BCE) in Deir-el-Bahri, West-Thebes. Osiride statue of Pharaoh Hatshepsut on the upper terrace.
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (1503-1452 BCE) in Deir-el-Bahri, West-T...

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut: Hathor chapel, the goddess in her bovine form, with crown, is fed by Hatshepsut. 18th dynasty, New Kingdom.
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut: Hathor chapel, the goddess in her bovin...

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Hathor Chapel: the goddess in her bovine form, with sun-disk between the horns.
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Hathor Chapel: the goddess in her bovin...

Complex of Pharaoh Djozer (3rd dynasty,2686-2613 BCE), Saqqara. The step-pyramid built by Djozer's chief of works, the deified Imhotep.
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Complex of Pharaoh Djozer (3rd dynasty,2686-2613 BCE), Saqqara. The step-pyrami...

Complex of Pharaoh Djozer (2686-2613 BCE) built by the deified Imhotep, the pharaoh's chief of works. Square of the "Hebset-Festival"when the king, to prove his undiniminshed strength, ran around the square. Chapels of the chief gods of Upper and Lower Egypt.
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Complex of Pharaoh Djozer (2686-2613 BCE) built by the deified Imhotep, the...

Pharaoh Seti I (19th dynasty, 1318-1304 BCE), wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt.
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Pharaoh Seti I (19th dynasty, 1318-1304 BCE), wearing the crowns of Up...

The young Pharaoh Ramses II (who completed his father's temple in Abydos) anointing Osiris. Ramses II (19th dynasty, 1304 - 1237 BCE)
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The young Pharaoh Ramses II (who completed his father's temple in Abydos) anoint...

Young Ramses II with Uraeus-crown, anoints the god Amun-Ra.
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Young Ramses II with Uraeus-crown, anoints the god Amun-Ra.

Pharaoh Seti I (19th dynasty, 1318-1304 BCE), offering to the god Horus.
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Pharaoh Seti I (19th dynasty, 1318-1304 BCE), offering to the god Horu...