الاثنين، 2 أبريل 2012

Pharaonic monuments in Sinai

Sinai is rich with many of the pharaohs and spread of these effects in several areas are:

Pharaonic relics in northern Sinai. Pharaonic relics in South Sinai

The effects of North Sinai

Tel Farma

 Located north of the village on the road Baloza Qantara - El Arish place at the mouth of the old Albelozi branch of the River Nile .. Farma and called the name of the Arab town known as the old name Beloziom .. The main defenses of defense of the Delta from the east. There have been many battles then the most important battle that took place between the Muslim armies led by Amr ibn al-Asi and the army of the Romans in 640 AD. . And shows the history of the city it is very old .. Known to the Pharaohs .. And the Greeks, who attributed the name of the branch of the Nile Albelozi .. And known as Copts Vrome .. Arabs and take their name Farma ... They are said to Mesft head astronomer Ptolemy famous.

 Tel Ahbuh
Located northeast of Qantara East, and the most important relics unearthed by the castle of the Pharaonic era of the modern state (King Seti I) The total length of 800 * 400 meters .. They are built of brick, and by a number of towers and similar fortified city, has revealed around for stores and homes and hundreds of artifacts and seals the names of the kings of Egypt Tuthmosis III and Ramses II, and others.

 Tel Abu summer
Located south of the city of Qantara East .. It is noted that the fort was the site of Roman fort was discovered Sila Ptolemaic and Roman of the other. The area is called as Red Hill because of the color of the red brick buildings and distinguishes the remains of ancient stones. There are the remains of the structure of the building of Seti I and Ramses II of the god Horus and the remains of a Roman camp, and found by the writings of the Latin Ambratoren Diomkeshian and Maximian. . In 1907 the stone was found by the hieroglyphic text and a large grinding stone .. Were also found near Qantara Sharq on the red stone of flint full of hieroglyphic writing. Also found in 1911 on the remains of an ancient cemetery inside the coffins of stone with hieroglyphic writings.

Appointed Alkadirat
Located in the fertile valley tells Alkadirat appointed by and reflect the effects discovered the importance of this region and its central role in the early Pharaonic times .. As established by many of the forts remained, including: Castle Central: They are of strong walls and towers and trenches. A rectangular shape 60 meters * 40 meters and a thickness of external walls of 4 meters and around 8 towers.

 The effects of South Sinai
If the road is the key to the great Military follow the archaeological sites in northern Sinai .. The activity of mining and mining is the key to map archaeological sites in South Sinai. . Vsaina is the oldest areas in which the ancient Egyptians used copper and turquoise since before the Pharaonic dynasties long. . The most important sites of old mining sites are: the cave and Srabit server.

Cave
Called the name of the cave on a limited part of the Valley cannula where the mountain where there are veins of turquoise mined by the ancient Egyptians. And there are still remnants in this region, the ancient workers' huts on a highland .. The walls can be traced, but the important patterns that existed no longer remain there, where some were taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .. Or crash in attempts to find turquoise at the beginning of this century.

 Srabit server
The area of ​​Srabit server through the state central and most important of the modern state of the cave .. And its various easy Access to the cave and mines in the valley flat and turquoise veins rises 60 meters on the level of the belly of the valley, and the way the server Srabit very rugged .. It is over the hill climbing up difficult from all sides .. Effects in them, as well as mines located above the flat surface of the high plateau. Were found in this region, the statues of many bearing the names of King Sneferu of the Fourth Dynasty .. King Mentuhotep III and Mentuhotep IV, King of the kings of the Eleventh Dynasty and Senusret pattern for each of the first and the name of his father, Amenemhat I. The most famous monuments in the region is the Temple of Hathor and other inscriptions Sinaiticus.

 Temple of Hathor
Has been set up by King Senusret I to worship the goddess Hathor, Lady of Turquoise, and saw the temple additions in the next several periods where he began the temple of Hathor cave carved in the mountain, a holy of holies of the temple .. Constructed in front of him and then another room and dedicated to Hathor and then added the second part of Amenemhat this building and then the frequency of the names of many other kings in the temple such as Amenemhat III and IV.
 
In the era of the modern state, King Amenhotep the first reform of the destroyed structure of the lobby, a private mobile phone on the columns .. The structure was built faucet Hathor, who was prepared to cleanse the visitors to the temple
 
During the reign of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, several rooms were added in front of the Holy of Holies .. Then the next several halls in the reign of his son Amenhotep II .. The six rooms were built in the reign of Amenhotep III

The inscriptions on the facades of these paintings and the rock containing the usual prayers of the goddess .. The total number of inscriptions found in the inscription Srabit server 387 from the two countries of Central and modern .. It does not include, of course, the temple carvings, where missions were sent under the chairmanship of the mines because the mines, a senior official from the estate of the king. Were inscriptions remember the name of the King and Head of Mission and senior staff.
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