Friday, 21 January 2011

Ancient Egyptian monuments in Sinai

Sinai is rich in many of the pharaohs and the spread of these effects in several areas are:

Ancient Egyptian monuments in north Sinai. Pharaonic antiquities in the southern Sinai

The effects of North Sinai

 Tel Farma
Located north of the village Baloza on the road to - Arish place at the mouth of the old Albilozi section of the River Nile .. And called Farma is the Arabic name of the town known as the old name Beloziom .. The most important bulwark to defend the Delta from the east. There have been many battles then the most important battle that took place between the Muslim armies led by Amr ibn al-Asi and the Army of the Romans in 640 AD. . And demonstrates the city's history as a very old .. Known to the Pharaohs .. And the Greeks who attributed the name of the branch of the Nile Albilozi .. And defined by the Copts as frome .. Them to take the Arabs and the name of the Farma ... She was said to Mesft Head of Ptolemy the famous astronomer

Tel Ahbup
Located northeast of the city east of Kantara, and the most important relics unearthed by the castle of the Pharaonic era of the modern state (King Seti I) and a length of 800 * 400 meters .. Built of brick, and a number of towers like a fortified city, where reveal around the stores and houses and hundreds of artifacts and seals the names of the kings of Egypt, Tuthmosis III and Ramses II and others

Tel Abu summer
Located south of Kantara East .. It is noted that the fort was the site of Roman Sylla was discovered Castle Ptolemaic and the other Roman. And was named after Red Hill because of the color of brick red, which distinguishes the remains of ancient buildings and stones. There are the remains of the building structure of Seti I and Ramses II of the god Horus and the remains of a Roman camp, and found by the writings of the Latin Ambratorin Diomkeshian and Maximian. . In 1907 it was found on a stone hieroglyphic text and a large grinding stone .. Also found near the east on a stone arch of red granite fill hieroglyphic writing. Also found in 1911 on the remains of an ancient cemetery inside the coffins of stone with hieroglyphic writings

Appointed Alkadirat
Located in a fertile valley tells Alkadirat appointed by and reflect the effects discovered the importance of this region and its central role in early Pharaonic times .. Which was established by many of the forts remain, including: Castle Central: They have strong walls and towers and trenches. It is rectangular in shape 60 meters * 40 meters and a thickness of external walls of 4 meters and around eight towers

The effects of South Sinai
If the Military Road is the key to tracking the great archaeological sites in the northern Sinai .. The activity of mining and mining is the key to map archaeological sites in South Sinai. . Sinai is the oldest areas in which the ancient Egyptians used copper and turquoise since the pre-pharaonic dynasties long. . The most important sites of ancient mining sites: the cave and Srabit server

Cave
Called the name of the cave on a limited part of the valley where the cannula the mountain, which are the veins of turquoise mined by the ancient Egyptians. And there are still in this region, the ancient remains of huts of workers over a highland .. The walls can be traced, but the important patterns that existed no longer remain there, where some were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .. Or crash in attempts to find turquoise in the beginning of this century

Srabit server
The area Srabit server through the State Central and the modern state is more important than the cave .. And its various access is easy access to the cave and mines in the valley flat and the veins of turquoise rise 60 meters on the level of the belly of the valley, but the way the server Srabit very rugged .. It is to rise above the plateau is difficult from all sides .. Effects in them, as well as mines located above the flat surface of the high plateau. Was found in this region on numerous statues bearing the names of the king of the Fourth Dynasty Bent .. King Mentuhotep III Mentuhotep IV, King of the kings of the Eleventh Dynasty and Senusret pattern for each of the first and the name of his father, Amenemhet I. The most famous monuments in the region is the temple of Hathor and other inscriptions Sinaiticus

 Temple of Hathor
Was established by King Senusret I of the goddess Hathor, Lady of Turquoise, and then saw the additions in the temple the next numerous times where he began the temple of Hathor cave carved in the mountain, a holy of holies of the temple .. Then constructed in front of another room dedicated to Hathor, and then added the second part of Amenemhat this building and then reported the names of many of the other kings in the temple such as Amenemhat III and IV

 In the era of the modern King Amenhotep the first reform of the destroyed structure of a private hall mobile columns .. As constructed structure faucet Hathor, who was ready to purge the visitors to the temple
During the reign of Tuthmosis III and Hatshepsut added several rooms to the Holy of Holies .. Then the next several rooms in the reign of his son Amenhotep II .. The six rooms were built in the reign of Amenhotep III

And inscriptions on which these paintings and fronts the rock containing the usual litanies of the goddess .. The total number of inscriptions found in the server 387 Srabit inscription of the two countries of Central and modern .. It does not include inscriptions of the temple, of course, where the missions were sent miners headed by a senior official because the mining of the property of the king. Were inscriptions remember the name of the King and Head of Mission and senior staff

       

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