Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Tuna el-Gebel Temple of Thoth 6307EG07JHP
Photographs in this gallery cover the main sites of Amarna, its North Palace, Aten and Small Temple, Bani Hasan Rock cut chapels, Tuna el-Gebel with the Catacombs with baboon and ibis mummies, Stela of Akhenaten on the north boundary, Petosiris Tomb-Chapel, Chapels of Ptoemais and Isadora, Roman Water Wheel Well and Temple of Thoth and el Ashmunein with an Open Air Museum with huge granite statues of Baboons and nearby a Temple to Thoth with a later Christian Basilica all located along the River Nile between Cairo and Luxor accessed from the nearby university city of Minya
© Jim Henderson
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn | |||
| Filename: | Tuna el-Gebel Temple of Thoth 6307EG07JHP |
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| Upload Date: | 2007-10-23 11:39:25 | |||
| Photo Size: | 10mb 5320x3560 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Ancient Egyptian Greco-Roman Temple Thoth Desert Sand Ruins Necropolis Tunael-Gebel is City of the Dead with various chapels, temples and catacombs for animal mummies and many more which are still buried and unexcavated under the desert sands. The site is centred on a Temple of Thoth, badly ruined as this photo shows, dating from Ramesside through to Roman times and was a place of pilgrimage so there are buildings for accommodation as well and remains of a Roman water wheelhouse obtaining its water from a deep well. Near to the cemetery is the northern boundary stela of Akhenaten which can be visited after a short low grade climb up steps where it is protected from the elements behind a Perspex screen. |
| Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, landscape, Egyptology, history, archaeology, ancient, Tuna el-Gebel, Gabal, temple, Roman, Greco-Roman, columns, pillars, Thoth, Necropolis, sand, desert, erosion |