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Heliopolis in Egypt

Heliopolis in Egypt


  • May 22 2020
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Heliopolis is a little place in Egypt and can be simply explored within a day. There are not many things to do and attractions to visit in this town. Also, being a little town, there are fewer accommodation choices. People generally consider making a fast stop here before heading to the neighboring cities.

Heliopolis was almost fully destroyed. In the Middle Ages, there remained a one and only pair of obelisks at Heliopolis, generally known as the two pharaohs needles, but the only 1 left today had to be raised by 2 meters in 1950 to get it out of reach of groundwater. Actually, it stools about 20.4 meters high. No doubt, it is the oldest of all the standing obelisks in Egypt. The caption, repeated on the 4 faces of the pink granite shaft indicated that it was erected by Senusret I, second pharaoh of the twelve Dynasty, on the occasion of his jubilee in approximately 1930 BC.

Now all the other obelisk have disappeared from the place, either moved to new places or taken down and broken upon the place. Nearly half of the 13 obelisks now in Rome, and it is said that there were once 48, came from Heliopolis. Hence, one might say that there is more of Heliopolis these days in western countries than in Egypt. One of these was Flaminian obelisk, primary erected by Augustus on the Spina of the Circus Maximus, before being transported to the middle of the Piazza del Popolo in 1589 during the reign of Sixtus V. on it, the words recorded by Seti I on one of its faces show that the filled Heliopolis with obelisks. Until, recently, the just proof of this was the obelisk in Rome.

At the foot of the enuresis, the monument is a little open-air museum. Here, we find a little quartzite obelisk that would emerge to be of even greater antiquity, given that it bears the Teti name, the primary pharaoh of Egypt's sixth Dynasty (approximately 2300 BC). Also on display here is the base of a big obelisk in situ, along with a few granite blocks that presumably belonged to it, though this one is much later, dating to the eighteen Dynasty and probably the reign of Tuthmosis II. It is superimposed with the writing of Ramesses II. Other objects in the little museums are inscribed with names such as Tuthmosis IV, Amenhotep II, Amenhotep III, and there are older monuments as well, adding the ruins of the third Dynasty shrine of King Djoser.

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