April 23rd, 2009
In Egypt are found out four temples of Pharaohs times
Four ancient Egypt temple are found out of Pharaohs times in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Temples of the period of the New kingdom (nearby to 1580 - 1070 BC), a board of Pharaohs XVIII-XIX epoch of dynasties, have been found in a course of the excavation guided by the Egyptian archeologists under the direction of the High council on affairs of antiquities АРЕ.
Ancient constructions are located in Tel-Habva in a city district of the Ale-Kantara in four kilometres to the east from Suez channel in a province of Northern Sinai. This place served in due time as a starting point of military campaigns to Egyptian army for protection of eastern frontiers of the state. As the head of the High council of affairs of antiquities of Zahi Havas has declared, that this find is one of the largest on Sinai.
The biggest of four temples has been constructed on the area 80X70 metres of the burnt brick. The construction is strengthened with four-metre height wall. The sacred place lies on the east and consists of four rectangular halls with well-kept bases made of 34 columns. In a temple are found ancient Egyptian lists with images of various gods. The inscriptions devoted to tsars of Tutmos II and Ramzes II testify the importance of a temple. The same thing also signified by the paints which have partly remained on walls.
This temple, according to scientists, was the important religious centre in the east of Egypt and is the unique remained sample of building from a brick on the Sinai Peninsula in delta of Nile of times of the New kingdom.