The archaeologists of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, headed by Dr. Mustafa Waziri, revealed a statue of one of the priests of the goddess Hathor, during the rescue excavations that the Council started since late July, inside a plot of land owned by a citizen during the establishment of a project in the region, which is about 2 km southeast of the area Dead hostage, and during the next report we review the story of Hathor.
Hathor is an ancient Egyptian idol, and she is the goddess of the sky, love, beauty, happiness, music, and fertility. Fayoum and the city of Abydos near Sohag.
And on the authority of Maan Hathor, it is the house of Hor or the sanctuary of Hor. Those who were lying in the sheds of death were watered by the thirsty, and they imagined that she would sometimes roam the desert west of the Nile in the form of a lioness to protect the graves there.
As for the Temple of Hathor, it is located on the surface of a sandstone plateau about 1,200 meters above sea level. The length of the temple is about 80 meters, and its width is about 35 meters. Near the temple there are turquoise caves whose rocks are rich in many important inscriptions and to the west of the temple are workers' houses, which are circular in shape roughly constructed from the stones of the region and some tools of daily life were found in them. .
The temple includes three entrances to which the visitor reaches from three valleys, the main entrance is from Rawd al-Ayr, the second entrance is from Wadi al-Khasif, and the third entrance is from Wadi al-Taliha. The main entrance included two paintings, one from the reign of King Ramses II, and the other from the reign of King Seth Nakht. The Twentieth Dynasty. "
Mon, Aug. 10, 2020
