Authors: Robert Bauval
The Egypt Code (42 page)
The goddess Satis (left) with the ram-headed god Kknum, Temple of Satis on Elephantine Island.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera.
The Temple of the
Birth of Isis
at Dendera. View from the roof of the Hathor temple, looking south.
Birth of Isis
at Dendera. View from the roof of the Hathor temple, looking south.
Author in the Osiris chapel of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera.
Dawn at the Great Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel during the sun festival in late October.
Great Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel. The holy of holies illuminated by the sun’s ray on 19th October.
Great Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel. Sunrise on 19th October.
Photo-montage by Jan van der Haagen of UNESCO (1961) of the various sunrise points between 17th and 22nd October
before
the temple was moved to a higher location.It can be seen that the align-ment of the axis was directed to the sunrise on the 19th October when the disc appeared over the distant hill on the east side of the Nile.
before
the temple was moved to a higher location.It can be seen that the align-ment of the axis was directed to the sunrise on the 19th October when the disc appeared over the distant hill on the east side of the Nile.
Akhenaten, Cairo Museum.
Akhenaten making offerings to the Aten sun-disc.
The remains of the Small Temple of Aten, at Tell El Amarna.
Author at sunrise on 30th October at Tell El Amarna.
Heb Sed (jubilee) scene, Step Pyramid at Saqqara.
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