Dendera Temple Complex
Located Nabta Playa in the Saharan desert
Sacred Places
Significance
Of Nabta Playa in general pushes the foundation of the Kemetic
Civilization to 10 to 15 thousand years bce.
Size
The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is
surrounded by a hefty mudbrick enclosed wall.
Well Preserved
It is one of the
best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt. The area was used as the sixth nome
of Upper Egypt, south of Abydos.
Hathor temple
Who was highly venerated by the Kemetic people as a supreme
goddess and the Eye of Ra.
Shrine of Auset
Shrine of Sokar
Shrine of Harsomtus
Shrine of Hathor's Sistrum
Shrine of gods of Lower Egypt
Shrine of Hathor
Shrine of the throne of Rê
Shrine of Rê
Shrine of Menat collar
Shrine of Ihy
Shrine to Ausar
Dendera zodiac
The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a
widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico)
of a chapel dedicated to Ausar in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing
images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales).
The first representation of the solar systems and the
concept of the Zodiac
The Calendar Circle, which actuarily tracked the movements
of the stars of a several thousand year period.
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