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| Culture (page 5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Citadel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| One of Cairo's most popular tourist attractions is The Citadel, located on a spur of limestone that had been detached from its parent Moqattam Hills by quarrying. The Citadel began it's life not as a great military base of operations, but as the "Dome of the Wind", a pavilion created in 810 by Hatim Ibn Hartama, who was then governor. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Colossi of Memnom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| menhotep III (18th Dyn) built a mortuary temple in Thebes that was guarded by two gigantic statues on the outer gates. All that remains now are the 19.5m statues of Amenhotep. Though damaged by nature and ancient tourists, the statues are still impressive. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Valley of the Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Beginning with the 18th Dynasty and ending with the 20th, the kings abandoned the Memphis area and built their tombs in Thebes. Also abandoned were the pyramid style tombs. Most of the tombs were cut into the limestone following a similar pattern: three corridors, an antechamber and a sunken sarcophagus chamber. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The burial chamber in the tomb of Ramses IV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Tomb of Tutankhamun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| More Culture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||