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Tomb of Menna – TT69
The tomb of Menna
is located in Sheik abd el Qurna, Luxor.
Menna lived during the 18th dynasty and his tomb is beautifully painted.
There are scenes of everyday life
and of funerary customs.
In many of the paintings in the tomb,
Menna’s face has been either totally or partially removed, but his wife has survived in several places.
Menna had a wife – Henuttawi, two sons – Sa and Kha, and at least three daughters – Henut, Nehemet and Kasy, all of them are pictured in his tomb.

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Temple – chapel of Thot
Qasr el-Aguz
This is a small temple-chapel
with a courtyard and three rooms.
This temple-chapel had been constructed by
Ptolemy VIII
Euergetes II
and it is dedicated to Thot-ibis
a special form of Thot referred to in the liturgies of the cult of Djeme.
Thot is the Greek name for Djehuty
The Ptolemaic dynastic cult is represented here in the third room, the sanctuary.
The temple is very close to the mortuary temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu
The guard with the key to this place
was at Medinet Habu and the ticket was sold from the same ticket office as all the tickets to the nobles tombs

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The small temple of Nekhbet-Hathor
or as it also known by the name
Temple of Amenhotep III.
It is actually a small chapel, and was a way station for the barque of Nekhbet.
Two kings are represented here, Amenhotep III and Thutmose IV.
Perhaps Thutmose IV started to build it and Amenhotep III finished it.
In front of the entry has been a small hypostyle room with four columns.
At the front walls, beside the entry, can be found text by Prince Khaemwaset
son of Ramses II and old graffiti.
Inside the chapel
there are four columns with Hathoric capitols
The chapel is about 4km into the desert
from the main surrounding wall of el-Kab.
18th dynasty.

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Bent Pyramid of
Snefru in Dashur.
It is reopened for visitors after being closed for 54 years.
This pyramid was the hardest ever to enter.
That is of course just my opinion.
My legs were still shaking four days after this. But it was worth it!
You can take photos if you buy a photo ticket that costs 300EGP and the ticket to enter the pyramid was 60EGP. This was on the 29th of July 2019.

Next text is from the book
The Complete Pyramids
by Mark Lehner.
Inside the Bent Pyramid.
It is unique in having two internal structures, with entrances on the north and west sides.
From the north side a long, sloping passage leads to a narrow antechamber with an impressive corbelled roof.
The burial chamber, also corbelled, is above this antechamber.
The second passage runs from the west side of the pyramid, through portcullis blocking systems,
to another burial chamber, again with corbelled roof.
This is at a higher level than the first.
Structural instability is evident as the chamber was completely shored up with balks and scaffolding of great cedar beams.
Some time after both chambers were constructed,
a connecting passage was made between them.