Egyptian Christmas Lights - Part 3

 

Eventually we made our way to Luxor and the Luxor museum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyextee showing off his Ninja pointing skills. Impressive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Devo hat?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A noble one looks on dispassionately… And Oh, look! There’s a statue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This has to be the most recognizable faces in history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside the museum in Luxor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view over the shoulder of the Colosi of Memnon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hatshepsut’s temple as mortals see it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And how it looks from a distance at twilight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are all statues of Hatshepsut. One long wrack of Hatshepsuts gazing our from her temple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why do I suddenly feel like I am in New Orleans?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Temple of Deir el-Medina, 3rd-2nd Century BC time of Ptolemy IV Philopater.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gods on the Cairo subway. Hey, they’ve gotta get to work somehow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valley of the King’s. Situated under a pyramid shaped mountain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KV 63 Tutankhamen. I didn't go in. There's not that much to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like these pictures. They are so intimate. The gods and people are frequently depicted holding hands, smiling…, and even dancing. Or at least I like to think that’s what they are doing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here we can clearly see the remains of an ancient tourist pretending he knows something. Coulda used some fill flash, though…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m telling you, you can’t park that thing here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture was taken in a temple to Ramses II. It was mistakenly attributed to another, unfortunately fictional, ruler. It is impossible to make out at this angle, but this is a foot. And it inspired the following poem:

Ozymandias

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
    And on the pedestal these words appear:

 

    "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

 

    No thing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.

 

                 Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Colosi of Memnon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here for part 4.