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Sehenswürdigkeiten Luxor: Ägyptens Schätze

Luxor, oft als das pulsierende Herz des Alten Ägyptens bezeichnet, ist ein Schmelztiegel der Geschichte, in dem die Vergangenheit bei jedem Schritt lebendig wird. Als ehemalige Hauptstadt des Neuen Reichs Ägyptens, bekannt als Theben, bietet Luxor auch heute noch unvergleichliche Einblicke in eine längst vergangene Ära. In diesem Leitfaden werden wir einige der beeindruckendsten Sehenswürdigkeiten Luxors erkunden und erforschen.

Sehenswürdigkeiten Luxor: Der Karnak Tempel - Ein architektonisches Weltwunder

Einer der Höhepunkte von Luxor ist der Karnak Tempel, einer der größten religiösen Bauwerke der Welt. Dieser ausgedehnte Tempelkomplex, gewidmet dem Gott Amun, war das Zentrum des religiösen Lebens im alten Ägypten. Über einen Zeitraum von etwa 1500 Jahren erbaut und erweitert, stellt der Karnak-Tempel eine beeindruckende Verbindung von göttlicher und königlicher Macht dar. Besonders bemerkenswert ist die große Säulenhalle, die mit ihren 134 gigantischen Säulen jeden Besucher in Staunen versetzt.

Ein weiteres Muss bei einem Besuch in Luxor ist das Tal der Könige. Diese abgeschiedene Wüstensenke diente als letzte Ruhestätte für die Pharaonen des Neuen Reiches, einschließlich Tutanchamun, Ramses II und Seti I. Dieser Ort ist berühmt für seine reich verzierten Grabkammern und die komplexen Hieroglyphen, die Einblicke in das Jenseitsverständnis der alten Ägypter geben.

Sehenswürdigkeiten Luxor: Der Luxor Tempel bei Nacht

Der Luxor Tempel, gelegen im Herzen der Stadt, bietet besonders nach Sonnenuntergang einen atemberaubenden Anblick. Die abendliche Beleuchtung hebt die filigranen Hieroglyphen und Statuen hervor und schafft eine magische Atmosphäre. Dieser Tempel, der einst mit dem Karnak-Tempel über die Allee der Sphinxen verbunden war, diente verschiedenen Göttern und Pharaonen und ist ein Symbol für die kulturelle Vielfalt und Kunstfertigkeit Ägyptens.

Die Memnonkolosse: Bewachte Sehenswürdigkeiten von Luxor

Auf dem Weg zum Tal der Könige begegnen Besucher den Memnonkolossen, zwei monumentalen Statuen des Pharaos Amenophis III. Diese beeindruckenden Wächter standen ursprünglich am Eingang seines Mortuariumstempels und sind bekannt für das Phänomen des "singenden Memnons", das Besucher in der Antike faszinierte.

Tempel Hatschepsut in Luxor

Der Tempel Hatschepsut in Luxor ist ein weiteres architektonisches Meisterwerk in Luxor. Dieser in den Fels gehauene Tempel besticht durch seine harmonische Integration in die umgebende Natur und seine dreistufige Terrassenstruktur. Hatschepsut, eine der wenigen weiblichen Pharaonen, hinterließ hier ein bleibendes Zeugnis ihrer Regentschaft.

Tipps für Ihren Besuch der Sehenswürdigkeiten Luxors

Bei einem Besuch dieser historischen Stätten ist Respekt und Achtsamkeit geboten. Die Einhaltung lokaler Vorschriften hilft, diese wertvollen archäologischen Schätze für zukünftige Generationen zu bewahren.

Luxor ist eine Stadt, die mehr als nur touristische Sehenswürdigkeiten bietet; sie ist eine lebendige Brücke zur Vergangenheit. Jede Säule, jeder Stein und jedes Relief in Luxor erzählt eine Geschichte, die darauf wartet, entdeckt zu werden. Ein Besuch in Luxor ist ein unvergessliches Erlebnis, das das Erbe der Pharaonen lebendig hält und tiefe Einblicke in eine der faszinierendsten Zivilisationen der Geschichte bietet.

Nilkreuzfahrt Luxor:Ägyptens Glanz

Djoser-Pyramide : Antikes Meisterwerk

Pyramiden von Gizeh

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Stairs in the southern part of the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser Saqqara, EGYPT

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Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt

British vintage postcard, mailed in 1928

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Step Pyramid, Saqqara

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The step pyramid of Saqqara, built for Pharaoh Djoser by his architect, Imhotep. Imhotep's genius later saw him deified and worshipped in later periods. His inspiration was the simple mastaba tomb, which was being used for all Egyptian nobility at the time. By placing one mastaba atop another, he essentially created a stairway up towards the sky and the gods therein.

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The Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

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Staircase leading to the southern tomb of the pharaoh Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt. This staircase is dated to 4700 years ago. Djoser's step pyramid, or proto-pyramid, was the first real monumental cenotaph and probably the first pyramid in history.

Escalera que conduce a la tumba sur del faraón Zoser en Saqqara, Egipto. La antigüedad de esta escalera es de 4700 años. La pirámide escalonada de Zoser, o proto-pirámide, fue el primer cenotafio monumental real y, probablemente, la primera pirámide de la historia.

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Statue of a courtier Ihy - Met Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 27.9.5 Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6-8, ca. 2200–2100 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, Djoser Pyramid precinct, near, Ptolemaic tomb, cache of statues of Ihy, SAE Excavations

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I don’t know if the new building is a new or returning piece of architecture but honestly I really really hope it’s the return of the pyramid of power oh my god

Like arbiters grounds would be cool but I’m such a ALTTP fan I love the pyramid of power so much I want it to return so bad

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How Old Are The Egyptian Pyramids? And Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build Pyramids In The First Place?

— By Owen Jarus | August 30th, 2023

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest Pyramids. Image Credit: Getty Images

Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still dominate the Egyptian skyline. But when were pyramids first built? And why were they constructed in the first place?

The first pyramid in Egypt was built by the pharaoh Djoser, who reigned nearly 4,700 years ago. More than a millennium later, ancient Egypt's last pyramid built for a pharaoh was constructed for Ahmose I around 3,500 years ago. After that, Egyptian rulers were buried in underground tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Put another way, the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built between about roughly 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. This makes the earliest pyramids about the same age as Stonehenge, which was initially built between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. But the pyramids are much older than other ancient structures, including the Parthenon (447 B.C.), the Great Wall of China (220 B.C.) and the Colosseum (A.D. 80). The Neolithic temple Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, however, is older from 11,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Egypt's First Pyramid

Djoser's pyramid is made up of six layers and was originally built as a type of rectangular tomb known today as a mastaba (an Arabic word meaning "bench") before being expanded into a step pyramid.

Ancient inscriptions indicate that a man named Imhotep directed the step pyramid's construction. "Imhotep is usually regarded as the first architect in Egypt to build in stone and is credited with the building of Djoser's step pyramid complex" Marc Van De Mieroop, a professor of history at Columbia University, told Live Science in an email. "There's an inscription with his name combined with that of Djoser in which he is called chief of sculptors. In later ancient Egypt he was considered a sage," Van De Mieroop added.

The Step Pyramid of Djoser is the oldest Pyramid in Egypt. Image Credit: Anton Petrus / Getty Images

Why Did The Egyptians Build Pyramids?

Researchers are still unsure exactly why pharaohs chose to use pyramids for their burials.

One reason may have been to provide added protection against tomb robbers. In earlier times robbers plundered pharaohs' low-rising mastaba tombs by burrowing in from the top, Egyptologist Reg Clark wrote in his book "Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Protection from Prehistory to the Pyramids" (American University in Cairo Press, 2019). The step pyramid, with its six layers on top of each other, would have offered protection from this method, Clark wrote. "Many Egyptologists have suggested that the step pyramid formed a kind of 'stairway' for the king to ascend to the sky, but I suggest that [it was built] because it is the most efficient and economical way to create a virtual 'hemisphere' of protection over the underlying substructure," Clark told Live Science in an email.

Another important innovation was that stone was used to build the step pyramid, whereas the mastabas used by previous pharaoh were made of mudbrick; this was important as stone is harder to infiltrate, Clark noted.

Religious reasons may also have been an important factor. Miroslav Verner, a professor emeritus of Egyptology at Charles University in the Czech Republic, told Live Science in an email that "probably religious reasons were behind" the idea to build pyramids.

When Djoser came to power, the influence of the sun cult and the sun god Ra (also spelled Re) was increasing, Verner wrote in his book "The Pyramids: The Archaeology and History of Egypt's Iconic Monuments" (American University in Cairo Press, 2021). The sun cult's growing influence may have led to a desire to build structures that reached higher into the sky. Verner noted that a passage from a text dating back around 4,400 years said "may the sky make the sunlight strong for you, may you rise up to the sky as the Eye of Re" (Translation by Raymond Faulkner).

One question is whether a growing interest in the sun cult brought about the construction of the step pyramid, or whether the construction of the step pyramid brought about an increasing interest in the sun cult. "What came first, the egg or the chicken?" Massimiliano Nuzzolo, a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, told Live Science in an email.

Nuzzolo thinks that interest in the solar cult grew after the construction of the step pyramid. "This incredible architectural enterprise may have also affected and somehow even pushed for a change in the religious ideology, eventually reflected on a major emphasis on the solar aspects of the kingship," Nuzzolo said.

The Bent Pyramid, built under ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Sneferu, is named for its unique angles. Image Credit: Getty Images

Built For A Millennium

Whatever the reasons for building pyramids, Egyptian pharaohs constructed them for more than a millennium. The pharaoh Sneferu (reign circa 2575 to 2551 B.C.) built the first true pyramids (pyramids with flat sides) at Dahshur. These consisted of the Bent Pyramid (so named because of its unusual angle) and the Red Pyramid (named after its color). The Great Pyramid at Giza, the only one of the seven ancient wonders of the world that still stands, was built by Khufu (reign circa 2551 to 2528 B.C.) while Khafre (reign circa 2520 to 2494 B.C.) built another large pyramid, along with the Great Sphinx, at Giza.

It's not clear why Egyptian pharaohs stopped building pyramids, but security concerns may have been part of it. Despite likely being harder to loot than mastabas, Egyptian pyramids were plundered in ancient times, and pharaohs may have hoped that building their tombs in the Valley of the Kings would make them harder to ransack. Additionally, the topography of the valley has a peak that today is called el-Qurn (sometimes spelled Gurn), which looks a bit like a natural pyramid.

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Ancient African Timeline: 2575-1069 The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms of Egypt Flourishes, Part I

Ancient Egypt’s history is typically divided into three major time periods known as the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom. These eras represent the high points of Egyptian civilization, each characterized by distinct pharaohs, monumental constructions, and evolving culture. The intervals between these periods were known as Intermediate Periods, marked by instability and political…

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Majesty of the Step Pyramid of Djoser

The Pyramid of Djoser, also known as the Step Pyramid of Djoser, stands as a timeless testament to the ingenuity and architectural prowess of ancient Egypt. Situated in the Saqqara necropolis, to the northwest of the ruins of Memphis, this extraordinary structure serves as an enduring legacy of Pharaoh Djoser, who ruled during the Third Dynasty in the 27th century BC. This extraordinary African…

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i took a bunch (like…close to 100) screenshots last night in ac origins, like really cool shots, and none of them saved to my gallery for some mysterious reason lmao i am so done

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Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, 1913. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.