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| The tour provided a very wonderful lunch for us at a hotel then we headed to the Memphis museum to see the statue of Ramsses 2nd. |
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| outside the museum where the statue of Ramsses lays. |
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| An Obolisk |
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| Cartouch |
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| We were told when you see a statue with the left foot in a forward position, that means that the ruler was living at the time the statue was built. Most of the statues we have seen were built after the passing of the ruler. |
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| One of the several temples in Memphis was dedicated to the goddess Hathor, was built in the reign of Ramsses the 2nd. |
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| Every place we visited had Egyptian vendors trying to push there souvenirs on the tourists. We were told that this is the only income these people have is to sell to tourists. There was one more ship coming in when we left then they have 9 months of no tourism. It is hard to make a living and people are very poor. I felt bad not to help them out by buying something. The tour guide cautioned us not to encourage it, because once you did they would never leave you along after that. |
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| This is the Catacomps one of many in Egypt. The idea here is you would lower the corpse down this well three stories deep. There are openings where they would use a pulley to place the corpses on a level and then place in a catacomp (similar to honey comb that bees make) small niches where the dead were placed. The family would hold a feast or celebration in a designated room where the body would be laid to rest. They would eat and celebrate together. |
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| They have alot of animals in their tomb carvings. |
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| tomb carvings-having to do with the Jackel (which is their god)disembowling the dead. |
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| tomb doorway arch |
