Today, Thursday, the world’s attention is directed to Egypt, specifically in Luxor Governorate, to follow up on the opening of the Pharaonic Rams Road, which is a major procession road for the kings of the Pharaohs. Various holidays were celebrated within it, including “Opt and the coronation of the king and various national holidays coming out of it.” A huge stone dam used to protect the road from the western side of Luxor, the political capital in the modern state, the 18th Dynasty, and the religious capital until Roman times. But the question that arises is how will Luxor become an open museum after the opening of the Rams Road?
The giant project will make Luxor an open museum, given that the road connects the Karnak temples in the north to the Luxor temple in the south, bringing the total length of the road to 2,700 meters (2 kilos and 700 meters), with nearly 1,200 statues, and the weight of each of them ranges between 5 and 7 tons. Its length reaches 3 meters and 70 cm, and its width is a meter and a quarter, and all the statues are a lion's body with a ram's head and embrace the statue of Ramses II, the "symbol of protection." And the Department of Restoration, along with a number of workers specialized in lifting stones, the original colors of the statues of rams were restored, and the cartouches engraved on them were clearly visible.
The road is also rich, as it did not contain a group of statues only, but the ancient Egyptian did many things on the road, including that between each statue base and another, there are basins of flowers in a circular manner. The irrigation water for such basins is delivered through small channels of red bricks, which Water is transferred to these basins, and we can say that we have an integrated irrigation network along the way to irrigate the trees and flowers along the road, and the visitor can during his tour of the road that made Luxor an open museum, see two wine presses, which are absolutely complete in Upper Egypt, where grapes are placed, pressed, then preserved and stored.
The visitor will also see many industrial areas with places to manufacture tubes and containers for preserving wine, and we have warehouses in which these vessels are stored, in addition to basins for washing grapes with drainage channels in good condition, as well as industrial areas for the manufacture of amulets and figurines of pottery, as well as a lot of Other buildings such as a circular nilometer equipped with an internal gauge to measure the water level of the Nile River, and very important architectural elements that were discovered during excavations, which enrich the work on the road, which tells about the social, cultural, economic and religious life of the people of Thebes through the ages. The road is divided into 3 main parts:
The First: It starts from the tenth edifice of Karnak Temple and heads south for a distance of 300 meters until the gate of the Temple of Mut. This road was built in the era of King Tutankhamun, and it is considered the oldest part of the road visible so far. The sphinx with a lion's body and a ram's head, which are huge statues, sitting on bases with inscriptions, the weight of the statue ranges between 5 and 7 tons, and its length reaches 3 meters and 70 cm, and its width is a meter and a quarter. symbol of protection.” The ram itself represents the god Amon.
The “Second”: It is the statues of rams in front of the Temple of Khonsu, one of the Karnak temples as well. It takes the form of a full ram. It dates back to the era of Amenhotep III, who started the construction of the Luxor Temple, and its current location was not its original place while it was located in one of the funerary temples on the western mainland in Thebes. It was brought to this place during the reign of King Herihor, one of the kings of Dynasty 21.
The third: is the road of rams that extends from the Temple of Nut first towards the west or towards the Nile for a distance of about 200 meters and then deviates south in one direction with a length of 2000 meters until it reaches the Luxor Temple. The statues in it are smaller than the previous two parts, and take the form of a lion's body and a human head bearing the features of King Nectanebo I.
The visitor can also during his tour of the road that made Luxor an open museum, are the scenes of two wine presses, which are absolutely complete in Upper Egypt, in which grapes are placed and pressed and then preserved and stored, and the visitor will see many industrial areas with places for manufacturing Pipes and vessels dedicated to preserving wine, as well as we have warehouses in which these vessels are stored, in addition to basins for washing grapes with drainage channels in good condition, as well as industrial areas for the manufacture of amulets and figurines of pottery, and many other buildings such as a circular nilometer with a gauge An interior for measuring the water level of the Nile River, and very important architectural elements that were discovered during the excavations, which enrich the work on the road, which tells about the social, cultural, economic and religious life of the people of Thebes through the ages, and it is a large record open to visitors to Luxor.
Thu, Nov. 25, 2021
