Neil Luksors plain Luxor temple Courtyards and colonnades. Old Egypt and Luxor temple
Old Egypt is very fascinating for research. For the pilony there is Ramses's II surrounded with a double number of columns with capitals in the form of buds of the papyrus the courtyard. Overlapping was no time over them. The courtyard is placed at an angle to the main axis of the temple - by all means, it has been made for this purpose to include more raneshny chapels for castles. Remaining on the temple district, you can behold the lower part of the relief frieze representing a procession in honour of Amon on festival of Opet. Here the history of old Egypt as though revives. Direct attention to figures of bull-calves in a corner. The entrance to the temple is decorated along the edges with Ramses's executed from a dark granite the sculptures; on their pedestals the connected captives from Nubia and Asia are represented. Further older part of the temple, opening by Amenkhotep's III stately colonnade - 2 ranks of big columns with capitals in the form of the papyrus flower, so far supporting a powerful architrave is placed. The most observant tourists will see that the central bank of Egypt borrowed certain construction elements the temple. The sizes of columns are so considerable that it is heavy to shroud them in a look. The Pharaoh represented here is Tutankhamun at whom the colonnade has been decorated to reliefs, but cartouches glorify already his successor, Horemkheba. Behind a colonnade there is Amenkhotep's III surrounded from the 3rd parties with columns with capitals in the form of buds of the papyrus the big yard is the most magnificent type of columns from invented by Ancient Egyptian designers. The decor of this part of the temple comprises works of an era Alexander the Great, in east colonnade still it is possible to behold the remains of a colour list. And even the most cheap rounds to Egypt will not take away from you the right to visit the temple.
Inimitable rounds from Chelyabinsk to Egypt will promote you to touch ancient culture and to plunge into long-term history of this country.
