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“The Ancient Egyptians built their homes with bricks of mud. But they built the tombs of their kings with stone. At first the tomb was a heap of sand. It was covered and surrounded by blocks of stone. A block is a large piece of material which was used for building. The dead body of the king was placed in a little room which was under the ground. Then this simple tomb developed into a step-pyramid. This was a number of buildings placed one on top of the other. There is a step-pyramid a Sakkara near Cairo. This step-pyramid was built for King Zoser by Imhoteb, who was the King’s minister and architect. An architect is a man who helps to make buildings. He draws plans and looks after the work. Imhoteb was also a great doctor and wise man. Many years after his death he became a god of medicine. The step-pyramid was improved until it became a pyramid.”
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day 12 in Egypt: exploring the Temple of Luxor (also known as the Temple of Amun Ra).
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“[The Temple of Luxor] was the training temple for the priests. Here is where a man came at age seven…To complete the training of the priests took for forty years [and] one could not be a priest unless he was forty-seven. He learned the seven liberal arts: engineering, science, mathematics, medicine, law, theology, you name it. The people didn’t come in here for anything. Only the priests came in here, the young training priests.” — Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan
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“[The Temple of Luxor] was built by three main pharaohs: The first was Amenhotep III, then his son Akhenaten, then Ramses II.”
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“Why are you Americans killing the black people there, shooting them down, when they are already on the ground? Understand that question, because even if it’s one, two or three, it’s still a human rights violation.” — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
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day 11 in Egypt: today, we spent nearly five hours in the blistering sun on an adventure to the West Bank. we visited three mortuary temples located in the Valley of the Kings. [this is where King Tut’s tomb was discovered.] no photos were allowed but i took a few. next, we went to see the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut [the locals call her “hot chicken soup”], which is literally built into a mountain. then we saw the Memnon statues. at our final stop, we visited the Mortuary Temple of Seti I. everyone wonders how the Giza Pyramids were built, but there are so many other monuments located throughout Egypt that leads one to ask the same exact question. our ancient ancestors were extraordinary and these monuments prove this fact beyond a shadow of a doubt!!!
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day 10 in Egypt: the heat in Luxor is serious! whew!! i def thought i was going to faint, but that didn’t stop me from spending three hours exploring the magnificent Temple of Karnak.
