Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Forbidden Karnak Temple.....

The highlight of Luxor can only have been The Karnak Temple.
Its colossal size and excellent preservation makes it a wonder to see.

Funnily enough i think that we may have been slightly
over-excited by the whole thing,
seeing as on numerous occasions we had people coming p to us telling
us what we were doing was Forbidden.

I guessed they were just after Baksheeh (tip)
for hush money, but now i look back on the pictures
i think that they probably had a point.

For example -

Cuddling with ancient monuments - FORBIDDEN

(i'm of the opinion that James Cameron may have got his inspiration for the blue skinned folk of Avatar for these hieroglyphs)
Standing on top of ruins -FORBIDDEN

(apparently when Obama came to Egypt he pointed out this hieroglyph and said it looked a bit like him)

The workers took some time off for lunch so we thought we'd help out -
FORBIDDEN

Sitting on ancient relics- FORBIDDEN
Danny and Ksenjia act out a scene described in tour guide book of human sacrfices - FORBIDDEN


Swimming in the Sacred Lake - FORBIDDEN
Posing on the giant pillars -
FORBIDDEN
but it was so
amazing to see how detailed and preserved
some of the hieroglyphs are....


Sometimes
I wonder if ancient Egyptians built their statues life-sized
and human beings have just got smaller over the years.....


2 comments:

  1. Maybe the gods were the really big guys and the rest were just normal people? It puzzles me too. I am glad you had fun!

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  2. Wow! I've never seen hieroglyphs in such good shape. Wait, what am I talking about? I've never seen any hieroglyphs! Looks like fun though. :)

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