Egypt > Minya, Amarna & Ashmunayn > Tuna el-Gebel Thoth as Baboon 6272EG07JHP
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 Thoth as Baboon 6272EG07JHP |
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| Upload Date: | 2007-10-23 10:57:53 | |||
| Photo Size: | 13mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Necropolis Tuna el-Gabal Catacomb Mummified Baboon God Shrine Egypt isCity of the Dead with various chapels, here a shrine to Thoth as a baboon, 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, 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 wheel 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, Necropolis, catacombs, shrine, God, baboon, ibis, mummies, burial, Thoth, animal, hypogea, funerary, cemeteries |