Located near Luxor, Upper Egypt, and along the Nile River, as it travels northward towards Cairo, the Hathor Temple at Dendera is a significant archeological site.
Egypt’s Luxor Museum Antiquities exists is a rare and wonderful discovery and It is excellently exhibited against a black backdrop to bring out the greatest aspects of the collection of sculptures and artifacts discovered in nearby tombs and temples, which are all housed here.
Temple of Dendera: The temple of Dendera, built by Ptolemy IX SoterII, is situated in the middle of a vast area bordered by a wall of air-dried bricks that is almost destroyed and has sides that are between 925 and 990 feet long; on the north and east sides of the wall are two magnificent portals that were built during the period of Roman rule.
The Colossi of Memnon, which stand 23 meters tall and weigh a thousand tonnes each, were carved from stones of quartzite mined in Giza or Gebel Es-Silseleh and transported to their current locations.