Temple Of Dendera Egypt

Unfortunately the live feed did not work inside, so I could not film the light bulbs. But here we have, just pointed out to me, a sculpture of someone with a elongated head, which I'd never seen before, so that's kind of curious. And we're looking at the mud brick walls are likely from the Roman time period. But then the large temple itself, here, this is the temple of Hathor at Dendera. It's a dynastic Egyptian creation. There are some column sections inside which are made of granite, so that would make them likely pre-dynastic and megalithic. So like many of the sites in Egypt, a dynastic site is built on top or around a megalithic core. So very impressive looking gate here. This is all sandstone work. And again, if the signal lasts, then let's have a look inside this rather impressive dynastic building. A couple of lions with their heads knocked off. And here's where we see having a bit of difficulty with the phone slash Wi-Fi signal, so I'm doing my the best I can with what I have here. So let's see how far into this building we can go before the signal dies. Good morning, Louise. So we have Mark here for a sense of scale. The ceilings have not yet been cleaned, but they are working on restoration. See all the smoke. The ceiling's actually fallen down, the surface at least, probably because of hundreds of years of occupation by people living in the temples after the time of the fall of the dynastic civilization. Great acoustics as always. Here's a granite threshold, so that's very much an indication that this was previously a megalithic site before it became a dynastic site, as we find granite at basically all of the thresholds. Okay, so let's go back outside. See the weathering on the floor, just shows how much foot traffic has been through this threshold over the course of thousands of years. And you will be able to see the Dendera light bulbs, but you'll have to wait for me to make a YouTube video because the signal wasn't good inside that solid stone building. Again, we have some more of these keystone cuts on each of the levels. A lot of the stone has been taken away, recycled over the course of hundreds of years. And the very impressive Temple of Hathor, or Hathor. Have a look at, once again, at this little sculpture of someone with an elongated head. And these are bits and pieces from the archaeologists have found. We have two milling wheels. See, this one clearly was recycled from, this looks like it came from pre-dynastic time, very hard stone, badly damaged. Dendera light bulbs didn't work out. It's just the way it goes sometimes. Giant gate, the flying scarab beetle underneath, and the bus is waiting for us. Time to leave Dendera. Tomorrow we fly back to Cairo, and we continue on with the tour, including, of course, the Giza Plateau, and other sites you may have never heard of, such as Saqqara, which is actually quite famous. That's where the Step Pyramid is located. We're also going to Abu Sir and Abu Ghurab, that you may have not heard of. And then I, supposedly, am getting access to one or two ancient tunnel systems that are not normally visited by the public. That's all part of the great connections that I have here in Egypt with local people who can get special permission for me to go to sites that are not on the tourist maps, tourist itineraries whatsoever. So I hope you've enjoyed these two videos, two live videos from Dendera. I'll be filming a lot more after we finish in Egypt. We're going to Lebanon to see Baalbek, and we're also going to Jordan to see Petra. And so, thank you so much for subscribing, and for watching what I experience. Again, dynastic construction is the stonework, and then the mud brick walls are likely from the Roman and possibly Coptic Christian time frames. So we're talking, in general, 2000 years here, older there, and then the megalithic aspects that we see at these sites, much, much, much older. So this is Brian Forster signing off.