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Dush holds a sandstone temple with a colonnade originally dedicated to Osiris, who the Greeks transformed into Serapis, and also to the goddess Isis. [6] The Dush "fortress stands atop the highest hill in the area, about 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) northeast of the modern village of Dush.
The “revered” temple was named “Eninnu, the White Thunderbird,” researchers said. The search for this 4,500-year-old sanctuary “obsessed generations of archaeologists.”
The Temple of Hibis is the largest and best preserved ancient Egyptian temple in the Kharga Oasis, as well as the only structure in Egypt dating to the Saite-Persian period (664–404 BCE) which has come down to modern times in relatively good condition.
Views of Isis Temple, or routes to the region are from the middle, or lower Bright Angel Canyon-Phantom Creek region, the flatlands around Isis, Cheops and the block southeast, called Utah Flats; one of the trails leads to the viewpoint at the Isis-Cheops Saddle. From the North Rim, the Tiyo Point Trail has views of Isis Temple from the north.
The temples covered some 1.2 hectares and were dominated by the Great Temple, an enormous structure with vaults and columns that once rose to 30 metres. The city was famed for its fusion of Greek, Mesopotamian, Canaanite, Aramean and Arabian pantheons, known in Aramaic as Beiṯ Ĕlāhā ("House of God").
The Kiradu temples are a group of ruined Hindu temples located in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, India. Kiradu town is located in the Thar desert, about 35 km from Barmer and 157 km from Jaisalmer. The ruins of at least five temples exist at Kiradu. Of these, the Someshvara temple, dedicated to Shiva, is the best
The Temple of Seti I is now known as the Great Temple of Abydos. In antiquity, the temple was known as " Menmaatre Happy in Abydos," and is a significant historical site in Abydos . [ 1 ] Abydos is a significant location with its connection to kingship due to being the burial site of the proto-kings from the Pre-Dynastic period , First Dynasty ...
The Eye of Ra, a gothic mystery novel by desert explorer Michael Asher, connects Zerzura to the Pharaoh Akhnaten, alien visitations, and UFO The Oasis of the Last Story: Tales from the Desert is a fictionalized autobiography by explorer and former SAS man Michael Asher about his 40 year quest for the lost oasis on foot and with camels, told as ...