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21st-Century BC Architecture: Deir El-Bahri, Ziggurat of Ur, 21st Century BC in Architecture


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Chapters: Deir El-Bahri, Ziggurat of Ur, 21st Century Bc in Architecture. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Deir el-Bahri (Arabic ad-dayr al-bar, literally meaning, "The Northern Monastery") is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. In 1997, 58 tourists and four Egyptians were massacred there by Islamist terrorists from Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya in what has been called the Luxor massacre, causing a reduction of tourism in the area. The first monument built at the site was the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh dynasty. During the Eighteenth dynasty, Amenhotep I and Hatshepsut also built extensively at the site. Mentuhotep II, the Eleventh Dynasty king who reunited Egypt at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, built a very unusual funerary complex. His mortuary temple was built on several levels in the great bay at Deir el-Bahri. It was approached by a 16-metre-wide (150-ft) causeway leading from a valley temple which no longer exists. The three temples at Deir el Bahri from the top of the cliff behind them, part of Hatshepsut's temple on left, Tuthmosis III's temple in center, and Mentuhotep II's temple on rightThe mortuary temple itself consists of a forecourt, enclosed by walls on three sides, and a terrace on which stands a large square structure that may represent the primeval mound that arose from the waters of chaos. As the temple faces east, the structure is likely to be connected with the sun cult of Re and the resurrection of the king. From the eastern part of the forecourt, an opening called the Bab el-Hosan ('Gate of the Horseman') leads to an underground passage and an unfinished tomb or cenotaph containing a seated statue of the king. On the western ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=93943


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158609611
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Deir El-Bahri, Ziggurat of Ur, 21st Century BC in Architecture
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1158609612
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 45 gr


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