Egypt
- Philae's Hathor Temple Gets Facelift In Advance Of Formal Inauguration
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) To the east of the famous Isis temple on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt, workers and archaeologists are busy at work. They are cleaning and restoring the massive stone blocks that once formed the temple of Hathor, which...
- New Book: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Dijkstra J.H.F., Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 173 Summary: The famous island of Philae, on Egypt's southern frontier, can be considered...
- Travel Notes
Nile Cruise and Philae http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=32668 "Although the dams are of great value for cultivation, their construction meant the flooding of priceless historical monuments. One such monument was saved the Philae temple,...
- Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae And Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htmAn account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts...
- Tombs, Temples And A Bustling Market
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/travel/s_399514.htmlA rather nice travel article on Luxor, describing both its many archaeological attractions and reviewing its hotels: "Ancient Thebes, a ghost of the centuries, lives on in colorfully...
Egypt
Travel: A view from the Nile (part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/f72gu (venturacountystar.com)
Second of a two part travel item charting a trip to Egypt. In this installment, the writer, Barry Pollack, travels to Philae, Edfu, and Luxor (the Temple of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Karnak), and provides short descriptions of each site: "The Temple of Isis on the Island of Philae was built as a place of worship in the fourth century B.C. by the Ptolemy pharaohs. Its entrance façade is made up of two massive towers with grand bas reliefs of the pharaohs and gods, and hieroglyphic descriptions of their exploits. You pass through a portal to a long courtyard with a colonnade, then into columned halls adorned with pictographs and hieroglyphics. I found it especially remarkable that each column had its own unique capital — that special design at the top of a column. These walls, columns and ceilings were once painted in vivid colors. Today, all is sand-colored. But the enchantment and spiritual nature of Philae is timeless."
See the full story above. For the first installment see:
http://tinyurl.com/ju72c
Second of a two part travel item charting a trip to Egypt. In this installment, the writer, Barry Pollack, travels to Philae, Edfu, and Luxor (the Temple of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Karnak), and provides short descriptions of each site: "The Temple of Isis on the Island of Philae was built as a place of worship in the fourth century B.C. by the Ptolemy pharaohs. Its entrance façade is made up of two massive towers with grand bas reliefs of the pharaohs and gods, and hieroglyphic descriptions of their exploits. You pass through a portal to a long courtyard with a colonnade, then into columned halls adorned with pictographs and hieroglyphics. I found it especially remarkable that each column had its own unique capital — that special design at the top of a column. These walls, columns and ceilings were once painted in vivid colors. Today, all is sand-colored. But the enchantment and spiritual nature of Philae is timeless."
See the full story above. For the first installment see:
http://tinyurl.com/ju72c
- Philae's Hathor Temple Gets Facelift In Advance Of Formal Inauguration
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) To the east of the famous Isis temple on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt, workers and archaeologists are busy at work. They are cleaning and restoring the massive stone blocks that once formed the temple of Hathor, which...
- New Book: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Dijkstra J.H.F., Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 173 Summary: The famous island of Philae, on Egypt's southern frontier, can be considered...
- Travel Notes
Nile Cruise and Philae http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=32668 "Although the dams are of great value for cultivation, their construction meant the flooding of priceless historical monuments. One such monument was saved the Philae temple,...
- Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae And Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htmAn account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts...
- Tombs, Temples And A Bustling Market
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/travel/s_399514.htmlA rather nice travel article on Luxor, describing both its many archaeological attractions and reviewing its hotels: "Ancient Thebes, a ghost of the centuries, lives on in colorfully...