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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...

Unfinished Osiride statue in the Southern Granite quarries at Assuan. The statue, of pink granite, is roughly 6 m long.
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Unfinished Osiride statue in the Southern Granite quarries at Assuan. The...

The two colossi of Memnon, both statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1417-1379 BCE), placed in front of his mortuary temple. Sandstone, H: 21 m During the Roman epoch they were taken for statues of Memnon, mythical son of Eos.
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The two colossi of Memnon, both statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1417-1379...

The two colossi of Memnon, both statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1417-1379 BCE), placed in front of his mortuary temple. Sandstone, H: 21 m During the Roman epoch they were taken for statues of Memnon, mythical son of Eos.
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The two colossi of Memnon, both statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1417-1379...

Rock-tombs above the necropolis of Hermopolis, which includes tombs from Ramesside- to Roman times.
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Rock-tombs above the necropolis of Hermopolis, which includes tombs fro...

Remains of the temple of Toth, central sanctuary of Hermopolis, seen between the tomb of Petosiris, priest of Toth, 300 BCE and the Graeco-Roman funerary chapel of Ptolemais.
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Remains of the temple of Toth, central sanctuary of Hermopolis, seen between...