Abu Simbel (Flash Version) (Html alternative) is a magnificent temple complex made by two of most remarkable exponents of ancient Egypt built by Ramses II “The Great”, one for him and the other for his wife Nefertari; His temple name was “Ramesses beloved of Amon Ra”. The temple was dedicated to Heru or Horus of the two horizons also known by Heru Harmachis, a name given by the Greeks as the top image of a falcon headed indicates so.
The spirit of Heru or Horus incarnated in the Pharaohs body by some special ritual emulating Osiris that gave him the rights and empower him to rule Egypt as a divine being and by so treated and worshiped as a living god; as each 28 years the Pharaoh had to repeat that ritual it’s probable that in this same temple was performed here one of the so many that passed in the laps of the one hundred yeas that he lived.

Abusir (Flash Version) (Html alternative) name comes from ancient Egyptian name Per Usiris or Per Asar, “The house of Osiris”, the god judge of the dead and lord of resurrection, when a pharaoh died his spirit was suppose to integrate with Osiris spirit and became Osiris.
This city was a necropolis between Gizeh and Memphis. Gizeh also was a necropolis, famous by having the Great Pyramids; Memphis was the ancient Egyptian capital during the “Old Empire” period.
The pharaoh Sahu-Re or Sahu-Ra, second ruler of the fifth dynasty was the first Egyptian sovereign to build his funerary complex in Abusir area, fallowing his predecessor Userkaf founder of the fifth dynasty that constructed his pyramid at Sakkara but did build his funerary solar temple in Abu Ghurab close to Abusir.

Abydos (Flash Version) (Html alternative) the first capital of dynastic Egypt in Upper Egypt about three hundred miles south of Cairo close to the Nile on the western side of the river, is one of the most ancient cities in Egypt; suppose to be the place where Osiris resurrected with the help of Isis his sister al wife and Nephthys also his sister. Abydos thought also as the place where the Head of Osiris was preserved. Osiris was associated with resurrection in afterlife and Abydos was the sacred city to worship Osiris.
This city also was an ancient royal necropolis the place where early pre dynastic and rulers and members of the first two dynasties were entombed and where most ancient Egyptians will had desire to be buried or at list where his body will be taken in peregrinate after death before being buried for the reason that this city was related to the entrance to Amenti, west or underworld where Osiris was King and Judge of the diseased, he was the god who gave eternal life.

Nobles Tombs Luxor (Deir el-Medina) (Flash Version) (Html alternative) the artist village made up by free willing and respected citizens the creators of the afterlife paradise for Pharaohs and nobles, having the right to build and decorate their tombs equal or better that many nobles, they had to be a class apart with great incentives.
For an ancient Egyptian his tomb had much more importance that his residence or palace, the tomb was his eternal dwelling place a place of worship for his decedents; when they mentioned their tomb they referred as their eternal Home, their abode for eternity.
You can force an artist to make an art object but he has to be motivated to create a beautiful one with this factor to their advantage, probably made the most distinguish Egyptian to lower his head in front the artist responsible to show his living status and enjoyment of eternal life.

Bubastis 0r Bastet (Flash Version) (Html alternative)was the Greek name for Tell Basta Egypt also known as Per-Bast, Per-Bastet or Per-Basted, home of goddess lion- headed Bast or the cat goddess Bastet actually she had two deferent ways to write her name as well two figures to represent her as centuries and millenniums passed by and her characteristics changed.
Its origin is probably older that the “Great pyramid of Pharaoh Kheops”; Micerino the builder of the third pyramid al Giza built a Temple in Bubastis in honor to one of his daughters. This city also is identified by the name Phibeseth in the Christian Bible, book of Ezekiel 30-17. Tell Basta is located in the Eastern Delta of the Nile River south of Tanis where today the modern city of Zagazig is. Per Bast became capital of Egypt in the10th century BC, during the “Third Intermediate Period” that is when Shoshemg I, the first Libyan ruler of the twenty-second Dynasty moved the capital from Tanis.

Dashur (Flash Version) (Html alternative) is actually the crucible of the true pyramid, after the failed tentative to build a true pyramid in Medium, the Pharaoh Seneferu (the beautiful or wonderful) founder of the fourth dynasty, father of Cheops the famous pharaoh who built the Great pyramid at Gizah; he made two more successive pyramid constructions tentative before reaching his goal; the first was the “Bended Pyramid”, for some reason of building calculations Seneferu had to change the slop angle of the pyramid to avoid its collapse. The third and successful attempt was the “Red Pyramid” that even so that is bigger than the smallest of the famous pyramids of Gizeh Seneferu has a meritorious consideration for his tenacity to achieve this concept of construction; farther on, if we ad the volume three pyramid that he had constructed, he is the Pharaoh who has built the major pyramid volume, probably but is some how outshined by the Gizeh pyramids for their height.

Dendera or Dandara (Flash Version) (Html alternative) was the temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Hathor, is located in the upper Egypt 60 kilometers north of Luxor, west of the actual city of Qena, in the other side of the Nile river, the West; Dendera faces the North and also the Nile. Although most of the buildings that we see now were built during the Greco Roman period, the Ptolemy rulers, Cleopatra VII did extended additions, as Greeks found a great resemblance or matching characteristics of this Egyptian goddess to their goddess Aphrodite the goddess of procreation, love, beauty, arts, music and lust. However its Egyptian origin goes far back, there are commemorative inscriptions of Ramses II, Thotmes III from the eighteen dynasty of the “”New Egyptian Empire”, Mentuhotep of the eleventh dynasty, from “Middle Egyptian Empire”, the fourth dynasty and the sixth dynasty ruler Pepi I, pharaohs of “Old Egyptian Empire”.

Deir el-Bahri (Flash Version) (Html alternative) is the area were is found the “The Temple of The Million Years” a temple at the entrance of the West valley or” Valley of the Death”, the decoration, made by statues and paintings are of outmost quality. This mortuary temple was built by the architect, Senenmut for the Egyptian woman rule rHatshepsut, famous for her trade expeditions to the legendary Punt from where they brought incense after three years departure from the Red Sea; it is also thought that a tree planted at the entrance of this majestic mortuary temple came from that distant place.
Apparently this architectonic complex was inspired by the temple built by Mentuhotep II pharaoh of the eleventh dynasty firth ruler of the “Middle Egyptian Empire” period; he dedicated his temple to Mentu-Ra the ancient god of Thebes. Mentuhotep II introduced also a peculiarity; he used the temple for the rituals as used at the time but gave it other additional utility by using it as a burial place or Tomb.

Edfu, Heru or Horus temple (Flash Version) (Html alternative) was built by the Greek rulers who related this god to their god Apollo; this temple is oriented north-south and not east-west as the previous ancient temple in the vicinity that its foundations go back to the “Old Egyptian Empire” period. The original Edfu temple was built commemorating the place where took place the legendary battle between Horus and Set and its location was supposed to indicate the exact place where this battle took place. Heru or Horus was a falcon headed god sometimes wearing the north and south head dress or the sun circle, some times is represented as a falcon and sometimes as a Lion nevertheless at this place there is a preferred importance representing him as the unifier of north and south as well as his bird characteristics.

Elephantine or Abu (elephant) (Flash Version) (Html alternative) is an this island in Aswan that has played an important roll in Egyptian history and even pre history but today besides the museum and the restored temple dedicated to Sati or Satet probably there is not much that can be appreciated as whole, otherwise most of the island is a shuffle of works of art, only remains partly destroyed temples but all over are found admirable works of art done by outstanding artisans. Elephantine was the home of the Egyptian triad Khnum-Satet-Anqet. Khnum the ram headed god was the male member of the triad one of the oldest gods of Egypt, Khnum one of the most ancient gods of Egypt believed to have solar attributes was a water deity; He was in early times a river god therefore the Nile god and god of the first cataract as well of the god of the yearly Nile inundations.

Esna or Isna or god’s Kum or Khnum temple, (Flash Version) (Html alternative) has a basic trapezoidal sketch Mastaba like facade but made with a considerable bigger volume and additional ornaments.
The temple of Esna was built about 50 Kilometers south ancient Thebes now a day better known by Luxor, the temple was dedicated to their ram-headed deity Khnum like in Elephantine but at this temple as his female counterpart is the goddess Neith.
There also is a lion headed goddesses probably is representing the eye of the Sun-god or goddess Hathor who is at times the goddess of joy and others a furious force, raging against the enemies of Ra, a concept similar like the goddesses Bast and Sekhenet that also are depicted with lion heads.

The Great Pyramids, Giza or Gizah plateau (Flash Version) (Html alternative) is an ancient necropolis located in the outer edge of Cairo its construction started during the fourth Egyptian dynasty of the “Old Empire” period. Kheops the second pharaoh of the dynasty changed the royal burial location, they moved from Memphis’s necropolis area at Sakkarah where the first “Step Pyramid” was built by Zoser and Dashur where his father Seneferu built the first “True Pyramid”. Kheops went closer towards An or Annu, a city located in the outskirts of Cairo, known as he center of the solar worshiping, for that reason the Greeks renamed this city “Heliopolis” or the city of the sun. At Giza were built the three “Great Pyramids” of Kheops, Khefren and Micerino.
Kheops also changed the alignment of the royal tombs; before it was from North to South from there on they will align fallowing the sun, from East to West.

kalabsha Temple (Flash Version) (Html alternative) the original temple in ancient times was known by Talmis was founded around 1450 BC by Amenhotep II son of Thotmes III the seventh pharaoh of the eightieth dynasty during the “New Egyptian Empire” period whose pharaohs expanded their Empire to this region. Later rebuilt by the Romans, about 20 BC when Agustus Ruled Rome. But the construction style is typical Egyptian but has strong influence from the Ptolemaic period. Being farther than the first cataract it was a Nubian temple. Certainly that by its dimensions this is one of the biggest sacred complex maintained in good conditions that belong to the Nubian-Egyptian period.
Kalabsha was a temple consecrated to fertility deities, the principal god was Mandulis (Marul in its original language) a Nubian sun god of similar attributes as those of the Egypt god Heru as well the Greek god Apollo.

karnac Egypt (Flash Version) (Html alternative) A walkway of ram headed sphinxes at each side of the road leads to the principal entry of Karnak temple, this sanctuary is one of the most famous temples of antiquity, it was part of the ancient city Thebes, (at present Luxor city) the capital of Egypt during the “New Egyptian Empire” period, at times when Egypt accomplished the highest point of its glory.
It is the biggest temples conglomerate of Egypt and probably the major temple complex in the world for its abundant colossal work and the immense terrain of about 250 acres that it covers.
Karnak was consecrated to their gods: Amon, goddess Nut and their son Khonsu that conform the Theban triad. Because of multiple representations of their main god Amon with the attributes of their god Min at the entrances of the principal enclosure of this sacred area indicates that this temples complex was also dedicated to fertility worshiping.

kom Ombo Heru Sobek dual temple (Flash Version) (Html alternative) Kom Ombo is about 45 Kilometer north of Aswan, even though that in the surroundings places are tombs that belong to the “Old Egyptian Empire” the main construction body of this temple belongs to the Greco – Roman period was built in a high place overlooking the Nile River.
This temple has a dual architectural distribution, actually two equal parallel temples side by side; the right side was dedicated to Sobek their god Crocodile symbol of the depth and darkens and the left side to Heru or Horus the ancient solar god lord of the sky and the heights. The temple was referred as the "Abode of the Crocodile" and "Stronghold of the Falcon" In ancient Egypt the crocodile was an animal with ambivalent charisma in some regions people hated the crocodile and killed them when they had an opportunity, for these people it was a symbol of evil.

Luxor (Thebes) the Pharaoh's temple (Flash Version) (Html alternative) Luxor city, ancient Thebes, received this name because there was the emplacement of a military fortification during the Roman period. Luxor temple was built south of the Karnak temple after Mut temple; these temples were united by a road that makes a straight zigzag in front of Mut temple whose door faces east-west direction rather than north-south as the Luxor temple.
Once a year this people came in a procession from Karnak temple. The statues of the triad gods of Karnak were brought to this temple in a barge once a year to reside for the short time that lasted the festival of Opet, this road eventually was decorated with hundredth of sphinxes shine.

Mastabas house of Eternity (Flash Version) (Html alternative) Mastaba in ancient Egypt was a house built for the enjoyment of their Ka or spirit in afterlife also mean to perform a link between the two worlds.
Were built at the west side of the Nile but it was a privilege to construct one of these burial buildings and the cost was only accessible to nobles and high rank officials; the size, place and features also depended on the status and richness of the person or his family; in fact a more sophisticated concept and much less accessible than today mausoleums. Before the third Egyptian dynasty were built with sun dried mud-brick but in Sakkara a wise man by the name of Imhotep stared to built them with stone bricks
Mastaba is a modern name, it means bench because the average building for this purpose look like a bench where to sit and rest, they have a simple trapezoidal flat roofed structure with a door.

Medinet Habu Ramses III's Palace Temple (Flash Version) (Html alternative) Medinet Habu, Medinet means city (Habu City) and practically it was a walled fortified city, a city of turbulent story of internal and external confrontations, also well built inspired in the Ramses II mortuary temple as well fine decorated and the best preserved city of ancient Egypt.
Medinet Habu is located at an extreme south side of the “West Valley” (The Valley of the Death) vicinity, the sacred mountain west of ancient Thebes, where kings, queens, nobles and artisans were buried during the “new Egyptian Empire” this temple was visited by a barge that came from Thebes with the statue of Amon each ten Days. Originally a temples or shrines complex dedicated to Amon-Ra the favored god of the “New Egyptian Empire” period. Also a thought to be the burial place of the primeval god’s that conform the Egyptian divine Ogdoad

Medium the false pyramid (Flash Version) (Html alternative) Medium pyramid also known as the “False Pyramid” in matter of fact the first attempt to make a true pyramid; this is a mysterious and controversial of Why? How it was made? Who made it? And there are many contradictions concerning the structure of this pyramid. Some studies show that this pyramid was started by Huni last pharaoh of the third dynasty father of Seneferu first pharaoh of the fourth dynasty. He was son of Huni but in a secondary wife, he even married his sister to be the rightful heir of the throne, but how he forms anther family or dynasty is a little confusing. Some attribute this pyramid to Huni and credit Seneferu as the one who finished the pyramid; others say that was only Seneferu the responsible of the pyramid, because the region where this pyramid stands belonged to Seneferu and his family from his mother side and even some say that probably the pyramid was intended as his mother tomb.

Mut Temple at Karmac Thebes Egypt (Flash Version) (Html alternative) was dedicated to the feminine counterpart of Amon Re or Ra as a triad she was the mother of Mentu the god of war but eventually Khonsu, Chons or Khensu a lunar god replaced Mentu; they were the preferred triad in Egypt after the Theban families took power as rulers Egypt during the “New Egyptian Empire” period.

Mut is a word that in ancient Egyptian meant mother, usually she is depicted as goddess mother represented by a white vulture also by a lion headed woman that at times wears a serpent’s crown as a serpent or by a woman wearing the crowns of North and South Egypt. Mut during the “Old Egyptian Empire” period she was a self begotten celestial goddess, associated with Mout or Nanuet the female counterpart of Mu; two deities of the Primeval Waters.

Nobles Tobs Aswan (Flash Version) (Html alternative) Upper Egypt in Aswan are located in a hard rock hill covered by sand, at the west side of the Nile, theoretically fallowing the trajectory west of the sun in its way to the eternal resting land.

They can be easily accessed by felucca the local sail boats that are found in the region. The trip and the sight give a deep peaceful relaxing feeling probably reason why it was chosen as a perfect place of eternal resting.
After a steep climb in a long stairway made of stone steps with false doors at each side of the road near the end, finally arrives to a small road, which conduces to a tomb complex of aligned stone cut tombs made for the important and notorious officials and their families of Aswan area.

Philae Isis Temple Aswan (Flash Version) (Html alternative) This temple was consecrated to the goddess Isis one of the most ancient divinity of Egypt its origins dates back to the earliest Egyptian dynasties. She supposedly was born from the sky goddess Nut in union with god Seb the patriarch of the god that represented the earth element; as well were born from this union her brothers Osiris, Set and her inseparable sister Nephthys.
Osiris married Isis and from this union was born Heru or Horus, the falcon headed god; is also believed that from the union of Osiris and Nephthys was born Anubis the jackal headed god protector of the tombs; most likely that because of this coupled event Set killed his brother Osiris when Osiris was 28 year old. There are also there are remains of Nubian gods like Mandulis the Nubian version of Egyptian solar god Heru or Horus.

Sakkara or Sakkarah (Flash Version) (Html alternative) is the necropolis of Memphis (Northern or Lower Egypt) the ancient Egyptian Capital of the “Old Egyptian Empire”, is located about 30 kilometers south of Cairo.

Has been used as a burial place for millenniums since the times of the first dynasty, at this place are more than fifteen pyramids, the outmost edification is the world known “Step Pyramid”, the first pyramid ever built in Egypt during the rule of Zoser a pharaoh of the third Egyptian dynasty. It was designed by Imhotep a wise man that was taken as god even after the thirtieth dynasty.
Imhotep (2635-2595 B.C.) he was the topmost of the scribes perhaps the first true architect as well he was the first to write books is medicine, astronomy and others books of knowledge also was the High-Priest of Memphis.

Tanis (Flash Version) (Html alternative) was a city, located in northern or lower part of Egypt at the north east of the delta, capital of Egypt during the twenty-first and twenty-second dynasties but do to inundations threatening had to be abandoned. Much of the stones that came to this place were from Per Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses capital of the delta founded as capital of Lower Egypt by Ramses the II the great constructor; this is also the city from where ruled some of the descendants of Ramses III dynasty.

Tanis came to power at the time that Thebes was ruled by the its High priests, the last pharaoh of the twentieth Ramses XI, was too week to control them. The Nubian garrisons that were call for help took advantage of the situation and a civil war broke that brought the besiegedMedinet Habu and that was practically the end of the great Egyptian empire.