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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

History and culture of the region south of Qurna, Luxor

Qurna date will not die .. "The name of this village, which lies in the bosom of the mountain may have known during the century or the summit pyramid, above the Valley of the Kings, so it has launched the people of this name to this village unique linked to her family Valley of the Kings and the tombs and excavations, discoveries and adventurers and antique dealers. . and when he chose the second of King Mentuhotep Deir el-Bahari mainland west of the shorter, in order to be the location of his tomb and therefore makes a good capital of the country, and found the kings of Egypt in the Golden Age of any family of 18 from the New Kingdom 1550 BC. m , to the mainland west somewhere resident is safe to be a center for the burial of kings and queens of Egypt, as well as staff and the nobles and workers, and through the tombs and temples and archaeological discoveries that have occurred in this region that we can know the history of Egypt during this period and the date of the village of Qurna, which has been associated with all these adventures and discoveries.
He has written many of the scientists on this village, most notably CarolineSimpson The study was the highest level, where according to the village of Qurna at the hands of many European travelers from the late 17 th century and beyond, In 1820, many Europeans who were working there on a permanent basis to build houses for themselves and their families, friends and visitors, where the British Consul Henry Salt HenrySalt building a house for one of the most important men which Giovanni Othanas GiovanniD, Athanasi Yanni, known as Winnie, which is the first home an interview with Lenny hills region of the eighth century, was built in Winnie's house in the form of a small castle surrounded by a group of buildings and down-home there is the tomb of Sheikh Othman, built of mud brick.
And the beginning of the twentieth century, all this house for a family needed a family of Sheikh Othman, and in 2000 became the home abandoned and destroyed much of it and its inhabitants an elderly woman raising a flock of geese, and it seems that one of these modern buildings, which is the point important in the history of buildings have been allowed to leave after the disappearance of the region are now parents.
The home of Italian antiquities dealer Petheinni Piccinini area Draa Naga is a small size is the first house built in this place, in addition to the remains of the Coptic monastery located in the region have shown drawings by adventurer Hay in 1820 and a number of historic buildings, which were character Coptic and that there is one of them the district south-east of Sheikh Abdalqrnp, and there is a panel of the National Library in Paris, for Wilkinson returns for the year 1827, representing a group of houses for one family and this is evident in the photograph dates from 1850, In the late 19 th century has been the rebuilding of the houses again, including the home of Theodore Ayoub know that was uncovered by adventurer Aliikali Baraize Baris in the early twentieth century, have been buying many of the homes there between 1970 1980 by family and became the house of Abdul Salam Tadros part of the cafeteria, but the age of a group collapsed in 2002.
One of the main house known that the region's house-Rasoul family is that they know the secrets of the valley, and uncovered the cache of mummies, the monastery of marine and Arushdoa many archaeologists graves new may be the boy who found the tomb of Tutankhamun and one of them, have met with Sheikh Ali Abdul Rasool last these men was a unique personality and there spoke to me a lot about the secret basement is located the tomb of Seti I. .. was built Mohammed Rasoul white house over the tomb of a new Kings in order to hide it.
James was John JamesstJohn who lived Balqrnp in 1834, was narrated that he met a dervish, who claims Rahman built for himself a modest house attached, serum in addition to the extension used as a book to teach children to read and write, and it seems that this is the first book established the village , and the area surrounding the family house belonging to the need for high-Sheikh Abdel Rahman.
The Darmelli Osman and he was 76 years old in 2000 I do not know you still alive or not, live below the house of Winnie.
One of the most travelers who have visited the area left is the father Claude Sicard ClwdeSicard Horn of the 18 who made a trip to the river at the preaching of the Copts, and there has done studies of the effects of Thebes, and Richard Pocock RichardPucocke monk was fond of travel and came to Egypt in September 1737 also appeared in that period, Frederick Louis Norden FredrickLewisNorden an artist Dane sent by King Christian VI in an expedition to Egypt, have been deployed to book a flight Pocock in 1743, while flights Norden, published in 1755 which is the first attempt to describe well done to Egypt.
As for those who have worked the most important region of the western mainland was Bernardino Drofeti BernardinoDrovetti The Consul General of France in Egypt early 19 th century, which had a very fancy effects, find, and theft including the opening of graves with dynamite, where the easier for him to open it, and came After that Salt Linné circus clown Italian Belzoni to work Valley of the Kings, especially the tomb of King Ramses III, which was named after a cemetery Bruce Brace, who worked in the valley with Belzoni and the transfer of the coffin huge cemetery to be sold to King Louis XVIII of France, was filed Louvre .
The Belzoni detects many of the graves of interest, including the tomb of King ie in 1816 and also revealed the tomb of King Ramses I and his son, King City has been the work of many discoveries area and Valley of the Kings after the departure of Belzoni, amid fears Salt on personal glory, and has worked for four months of very hard to find on other tombs, and see that Salt JohnGardnerWilkinson individually and help Lenny had been able to clean up about 55 meters inside the tomb of King Ramses II, in the period between 1817 and 1827, Wilkinson was one of the fathers of modern Egyptology, who was born in Chile in October 5th, 1897, has spent most of his time in the area of good works to copy and study landscape patterns and cemeteries a good job while he set up a series of excavations in the period between 1824 and 1827.
The most important antiquities dealers who had looted the valley is RobertHay which came in 1830 and lived with the people of Qurna, and bring many of them and began working in the tomb of King Ramses IV (2) and Ramses VI (9), have participated with him in work of many scientists and workers of Qurna, including Edward William, because in 1826, and there are the names of many of the workers who been associated with discoveries and most important of these families is the family of Abdul Rasool and some of them were porters know how to transport huge statues such as the Pharaohs completely, including antique dealers who cooperated with the consuls of Europe in the transfer of many of the effects, and some of them worked with Mustafa Agha, who was able to sell thousands of artifacts and abroad, including a group mummies were sold to the Museum Nyazramol Canada, including the mummy believed to be a private King Ramses I, and was able to out some of the artifacts in collaboration with the family of Abdul Rasool crypt mummies, which may be entered for the first time in 1871 or 1875 and some of the people of this region, came from the town's famous Qeft, which lies directly north of Luxor and considered all experts in the excavation of her family and worked in every place in Upper Egypt and the Delta has worked with many of them, and I learned a lot from them
Some people have been able to Qurna to build homes on top of graves and they direct the use of a cemetery as the repository for the stolen effects, in addition to the residence above the graves has affected the effects .. but it has been reconciled between the date of Qurna by selecting about 25 houses history and stories in order to leave the site to tell this great history and at the same time removed existing slum .. this place will keep the date because the effects and human task, especially when