{"id":83,"date":"2007-06-20T22:48:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2007-06-20T22:48:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T12:48:41","slug":"splendours-of-egypt-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/egypt\/splendours-of-egypt\/splendours-of-egypt-memphis","title":{"rendered":"Splendours of Egypt &#8211; Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This morning we drove to\u00a0Mit Rahina village to visit the Temple of Ptah.\u00a0\u00a0 Ptah was the Chief Memphite god and patron of craftsmen and artisans.\u00a0 The Mit Rahina of today is a small unremarkable village, however the Temple of Ptah was once one of the largest in Egypt.\u00a0 If you cast your mind back to Karnak Temple, the Temple of Ptah is believed to have been bigger than Karnak.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine this when you first walk through the humble front entrance and\u00a0you might in fact be wondering at the significance of the place.\u00a0 However, once\u00a0you see the magnificent statues on site, you can begin to visualize how grand the temple must have been in its days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We first visited a\u00a0small open-air museum which holds remnants of ancient Memphis.\u00a0 The museum&#8217;s showpiece is a\u00a0giant <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/11059-2\/DSC_1356.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Temple of Ptah\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Temple of Ptah\" \/>limestone statue of Rameses II.\u00a0 Apart from being\u00a0truncated at the knee, this colossal statue is still in very good condition. \u00a0The ancient city of Memphis was the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.\u00a0 It was believed that King Menes founded Memphis around 3100BC and was the ruler responsible for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.\u00a0 Memphis, situated at the head of the Nile Delta, was a majestic city during its times.\u00a0 Rameses II, son of Sethos I, reigned in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In the garden next to the museum stands a giant sphinx, believed to date to the 19th Dynasty.\u00a0 At 80 tons, this is the largest calcite statue ever found.\u00a0 Rameses II was known to have built more buildings\u00a0and had more colossal statues than any other Egyptian kings.\u00a0\u00a0 In the garden can be found more statues of Rameses II.\u00a0 Colossal statues of Rameses II guard the gates to the temple.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we drove to\u00a0Mit Rahina village to visit the Temple of Ptah.\u00a0\u00a0 Ptah was the Chief Memphite god and patron of craftsmen and artisans.\u00a0 The Mit Rahina of today is a small unremarkable village, however the Temple of Ptah was once one of the largest in Egypt.\u00a0 If you cast your mind back to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splendours-of-egypt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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