best places in the world : ancient egyptian pyramids

the ancient egyptian pyramids is one of the best places to visit in the world 

Ancient Egyptian Pyramids  is one of the oldest of the seven wonders of the world, they are the tombs of the Pharaohs, their pathways and cemeteries were filled in one day by the property of the Kings, which is priceless that buried them to use them in the afterlife as they claim .

ancient Egyptian pyramids

Historians called the era of the ancient state name of  "the era of  builders of the pyramids," a reference to the huge pyramids that we see now, which was built in the belly of the desert at the right hand of the valley, from the province of Fayoum in the south south to Giza in the north.

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why were the ancient egyptian pyramids built ? 

The idea of building the ancient egyptian pyramids dating back to the ancient Egyptians believed in the immortality of the soul, and their  belief in the Ba'ath again and the existence of eternal life. so, they built the ancient Egyptians vulnerable tombs to save  body after stuffing , and it was provided with a full range of needs of the Dead as gadgets and pieces of furniture and all kinds of food and drink, which was used in his life, even if the Spirit came and replaced in the body, human returns to his eternal life . And inscribed walls of the cemetery sceneries usual, for the intervention of pleasure for the dead. 

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the largest ancient egyptian pyramids : Kufu 

The largest of these pyramids is the pyramid of Khufu , the "Senefru"king's son   and his successor in office, the construction of this Great Pyramid took twenty years and has a height of 148 meters and an area of ​​base 13 acres and the length of each side of base ribs  is about 230 meters, and total quantity of stones used in construction is around 2,300,000 piece of stone weighing in total approximately 5500000 tonnes .

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The pyramid Middle is "Khafre" which is shorter in height of the pyramid "Khufu".

The third pyramid is "Menkaure" It was built by King Menkaure , the following king in governance after Khafre has gained a reputation unlike Khufu, Khafre, who  became famous of injustice, cruelty and tyranny as a result of servitude of thousands of Egyptians in the ongoing work .. To this day, weather factors can not impair  the pyramids.

How were the ancient egyptian pyramids built ?!

The most important question remains: How was the pyramid-building and transfer of stones that distance and lifting towering height !

The team of 

Architecture 

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Egyptology 

scientists confirmed  that the Pharaohs were able to cancel the gravity when lifting stones that were used in building the pyramids and moving them for long distances, and by directing a sound vibrations and shipments ELECTROSTATIC SPRAYING to facilitate the process of lifting.

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Best places in the world : The Petra , jordan

Petra is one of the best places to visit in the world

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Where is Petra ? 

The Petra one of the most prestigious sites of Jordan and the most attractive for visitors from all over the world, and the city of Petra is located about 250 km south of Amman - capital of Jordan, to the west of the main road that connects between Amman and Aqaba on the  coast of Aqaba Gulf on the Red Sea.

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what is petra ? 

from more from two thousand years old Nabataean Arabs, that coming from the Arabian Peninsula lived in Petra.In view of its impregnable position which facilitates defense, the Nabataeans made ​​it a fortress and they have taken the royal capital of their state. Petra still to this day bear the stamp of nomadism, considering visitors standing up horses and camels, in order to enter to it in the trip remain in memory throughout the lifespan.

Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans, which lasted between 400 BC to 106 AD, which stretched from the coast of Ashkelon in Palestine in the west to the desert of the Levant in the east.Due to its average between civilizations of Mesopotamia the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, state Nabataeans had held the reins of trade between civilizations these areas and population and commercial convoys were reaching to it loaded with spices and condiments from the southern Arabian Peninsula and silk from Gaza and Damascus and henna from Ashkelon and glassware from Tyre and Sidonand pearls from the Arabian Gulf.

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Petra features

The city of Petra is being dug in the  "Wadi Musa" 

rock

 pink, and so called the pink city. A city are integrated , tourist can see where all the basic features of the city, from "safe" (House of the judgment) to 

public 

terraced that  built for ceremonies and public meetings, to "court" and places of worship, and even the homes of its people that dug in its pink colored rock .

Siq :

siq petra

Visitor can reach to the heart of the pink city, walking on his feet, or on the back of the horse, or in horse-drawn carriage, across the 

terrible 

"Siq" . It's a huge incision thousand meters long, one surmises that both sides of the Beaufort rock at the top, and at an altitude of 300 meters, as if they were touching each other. 

When Siq draws to a close, it bends in the rotated sideways, then cloudy shadows to thaw suddenly, she believes the greatest scenes splendor swim in the sunlight. It's safe, one of the wonders of the universe unique. And dug by hand in the 

deaf 

rock interface the mountain Alohm, up 140 meters and width of 90 meters.

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best places in the world : Golden temple

 The Golden temple is one of the best places to visit in the world

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 It is also called the Temple of God, is one of the most important and oldest Sikh holy places. And located in Ermistar, Punjab, India.

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 A square marble building with a copper dome gilded, and the gates of the list in all four sides. Was built in the year 1604.

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best places in the world : Abu Simbel temple -Egypt

Abu Simbel temple is one of the best places to visit in the world

Abu Simbel temple aswan

location :

Abu Simbel  temple is located in South Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser , in Aswan city . 

 Abu Simbel temple  Consists of two temples were carved into the mountain on the west bank of the Nile in the period between 1290 BC. And 1224 BC..

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description:

-From the front yard of the Great Temple there are short degrees  leads the visitor to the wide-open path that extends in front of the front of the temple, that carved from the rock with a height of 30 meters and width of 35 m.

-The huge statues of King Ramses II are guarding the four entrances of the temple with a height reaches  to more than 20 meters for each statue, and each statue accompanies  smaller statues, the King mother statues  - Queen "Toya" - and his wife Queen "Nefertari" and some of their children.

-And above the entrance that leads to the Great Hall of the columns, between the two statues in the center of the interface, there is a fee in the form of the sun god "Ra - Harakhcy" which has a head of a falcon.

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Great Hall of the columns are located after the front yard of the temple and its roof carried on eight columns in front of each of them a ten-meter-high statue of the king "Ramses".

The roof is decorated with eagles represent Osiris, and inscriptions on the walls represent the Pharaoh ("Ramses") in various battles victorious as usual.

and the  following hall is a vestibule has four columns , visitor sees "Ramses" and Nefertari "in front of the gods and solar boat carrying the dead to the other world as the beliefs.

The temple was built accurately so that   in 22 of the month of February and 22 of the month of October every year the sunlight beats down the temple through the Hall of Columns, and the corridor to  reach the inner sanctum of  statues Ra ..., and Amon, Ramses II.

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Abu Simbel temple

The Second Temple in Abu Simbel Temple "Hathor" which carved in the rock, and standing    in front of six massive statues, each of them reaches a height of about ten meters, including four statues of the king Ramses and standing, and there are two statues of his beloved wife Queen Nefertari

These two temples were under improvement and studying since the beginning of the nineteenth century as a result of the study shows that the great temple is dedicated to Ramses II united with  the two gods Amun Ra and Ra Hur emerging sun

's sister . The small is dedicated to Nefertari, wife of Ramses II united with the goddess Hath

The Temple of Abu Simbel was one of the temples that carved from the mountains in the era of «Pharaoh» Ramses II as a permanently monument for  him and Queen Nefertari, to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Kadesh, and to intimidate the people of the Nuba neighboring him, he  began building the temple complex at around 1244 BC,and lasted for almost 20 years, until 1224 BC.

With the passage of time the sand had covered the statues of the main temple up to the knees.The temple was forgotten until 1813, when he found Swiss orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt on the Corniche in the main temple. Burckhardt talked about this discovery with his Italian explorer Giovanni Belzoni, and traveled together to the site, but they were not able to dig the entrance of the temple. Belzoni returned in 1817, after his success in entering the compound. It was said that his men carried what they could carry with them from inside the temple.

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The transfer of Abu Simbel temple :

International donations campaign began to save the monuments of Nubia in 1959: the ancient southern effects of this human civilization was under threat from rising water of the Nile River, which was about to result from the process of building the Aswan High Dam.

saving the temples of Abu Simbel began in 1964, and this process has cost $ 40 million.Between 1964 and 1968, the site cut into large blocks (up to 30 tons and an average of 20 tons), was dismantled and re-installed in the new location on the height of 65 m and 200 m higher than the level of the river, and this process is for many one of the greatest works in the engineering archaeological.And some of the structures saved from under the waters of Lake Nasser.Today, thousands of tourists visit the temples daily. The convoys of buses and auto attendant guard graduated twice a day from Aswan, the nearest city. And up many visitors by plane at the airport, which was built specifically for the temple complex.

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