Egypt
- More Re Discoveries At Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A good summary of the work carried out at Kom el Hittan. When it was constructed on Luxor's west bank during the 14th century BC, the mortuary temple of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III was the largest temple...
- More Re Luxor Balloon Crash
The Telegraph, UK (Samer al-Atrush and Ian Johnston) The Egyptian Government has grounded all balloon flights over Luxor until a safety investigation is complete. Instead of floating serenely above the ancient temples of Luxor, in Egypt, the balloon careered...
- Egypt Balloon Crash Injures 13 Foreign Tourists
Google / AFP The tourists had been floating over the west bank of Luxor, one of Egypt's most renowned archaeological sites and home to the famous Valley of the Kings and the grand Temple of Hatshepsut. It was not immediately clear what caused the...
- Daily Photo By Peter White
Peter White was on Bob Partridge's Ancient World Tours trip in October 2008 and he had arranged a balloon trip for the 10th October. They took off at 6:38 AM with almost no wind at all. 20 minutes after taking off from near the Ramesseum pylon as...
- Travel: Flying Over Luxor
Sydney Morning Herald I have been to Luxor so many times, and I have twice risen at ludicrous hours of the morning to visit the tomb of Nefertari before the day's allocation is sold, but I have never managed to find the time or energy to do a balloon...
Egypt
Former temple?
Here's something a bit different. Currently setting up the Norfolk Ancient Egypt Society, Glen Fricker has emailed me a photo he took in 2001 from a hot air balloon (lucky thing - I still haven't managed to organize myself onto one of those!). He emails as follows:
"In August 2001 I took a balloon flight over the west bank at Luxor, starting from a field across the main road in front of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari. The balloon went south towards the collossi of Memnon statues of Amenhotep III, then the pilot managed to do a U-turn and back-tracked from where we had came from, but a little nearer to the Nile. When nearly in a straight line between Hatshepsut's temple and Karnak temple I looked down in a cultivated field and couldn't believe what I was seeing - see attached photo. This building is parallel to the Nile, or in other words on a north-south alignment like Luxor temple. Maybe worth posting it to get views on it I think?. I'd be curious to know what others think."
"In August 2001 I took a balloon flight over the west bank at Luxor, starting from a field across the main road in front of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari. The balloon went south towards the collossi of Memnon statues of Amenhotep III, then the pilot managed to do a U-turn and back-tracked from where we had came from, but a little nearer to the Nile. When nearly in a straight line between Hatshepsut's temple and Karnak temple I looked down in a cultivated field and couldn't believe what I was seeing - see attached photo. This building is parallel to the Nile, or in other words on a north-south alignment like Luxor temple. Maybe worth posting it to get views on it I think?. I'd be curious to know what others think." - More Re Discoveries At Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A good summary of the work carried out at Kom el Hittan. When it was constructed on Luxor's west bank during the 14th century BC, the mortuary temple of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III was the largest temple...
- More Re Luxor Balloon Crash
The Telegraph, UK (Samer al-Atrush and Ian Johnston) The Egyptian Government has grounded all balloon flights over Luxor until a safety investigation is complete. Instead of floating serenely above the ancient temples of Luxor, in Egypt, the balloon careered...
- Egypt Balloon Crash Injures 13 Foreign Tourists
Google / AFP The tourists had been floating over the west bank of Luxor, one of Egypt's most renowned archaeological sites and home to the famous Valley of the Kings and the grand Temple of Hatshepsut. It was not immediately clear what caused the...
- Daily Photo By Peter White
Peter White was on Bob Partridge's Ancient World Tours trip in October 2008 and he had arranged a balloon trip for the 10th October. They took off at 6:38 AM with almost no wind at all. 20 minutes after taking off from near the Ramesseum pylon as...
- Travel: Flying Over Luxor
Sydney Morning Herald I have been to Luxor so many times, and I have twice risen at ludicrous hours of the morning to visit the tomb of Nefertari before the day's allocation is sold, but I have never managed to find the time or energy to do a balloon...