:: A.A.S. R.A. Picture Gallery - Africa (31 - 40) Click on the Picture to get more information! Images:  [1-10] [11-20] [21-30] [31-40] [41-43] Osireion The Osireion is a megalithic underground construction behind the Temple of Abydos. According to mythology the Head of God Osiris was burried here. Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Osiris God Osiris between the stars on the ceiling of the Hathor Temple in Dendera. Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Ritual bowls? What are these bowls which I have stumbled upon in Abu Ghourab? What was their purpose? Do they not look as if they were cast or moulded rather than hewn from rock? What is the meaning of the notches surounding each bowl? Why are they set in a row like this? Photographer: Wojciech Bobilewicz Location: Egypt Ritual bowls? What are these bowls which I have stumbled upon in Abu Ghourab? What was their purpose? Do they not look as if they were cast or moulded rather than hewn from rock? What is the meaning of the notches surounding each bowl? Why are they set in a row like this? Photographer: Wojciech Bobilewicz Location: Egypt Serapeum The legendary Serapeum is where the sacred bulls of Apis are said to be buried. Archeologist A. Mariette discovered this temple in 1850, in the early days of archeology. But he did not found sacred bulls - he found a strange stinking mass containing thousands of bone pieces. The Serapeum is a big underground construction. The sarcophagus weight about 70 tons, the cover weights another 30 tons. Where these giant sacrophagus just built to put small stone pieces inside? Erich von Däniken speculated that here were beeings burried, which the "Gods" manipulated in a genetic way. The ancient Egyptians cut these beeings into a lot of pieces to destroy their bodies and to avoid that these dreadful beeings will be alive again. Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Serapeum The legendary Serapeum is where the sacred bulls of Apis are said to be buried. Archeologist A. Mariette discovered this temple in 1850, in the early days of archeology. But he did not found sacred bulls - he found a strange stinking mass containing thousands of bone pieces. The Serapeum is a big underground construction. The sarcophagus weight about 70 tons, the cover weights another 30 tons. Where these giant sacrophagus just built to put small stone pieces inside? Erich von Däniken speculated that here were beeings burried, which the Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Serapeum The legendary Serapeum is where the sacred bulls of Apis are said to be buried. Archeologist A. Mariette discovered this temple in 1850, in the early days of archeology. But he did not found sacred bulls - he found a strange stinking mass containing thousands of bone pieces. The Serapeum is a big underground construction. The sarcophagus weight about 70 tons, the cover weights another 30 tons. Where these giant sacrophagus just built to put small stone pieces inside? Erich von Däniken speculated that here were beeings burried, which the Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Serapeum Because of renovation the Serapeum is since a few years closed for the public. To protect the sacrophagus during the renovation time most of them are wrapped into wood. Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Serapeum (Corridor) Subterranean corridor inside the Serapeum at Sakkara. Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Sphinx The Sphinx next to the Great Pyramid in Gizeh near Cairo. Scholars explain that the Sphinx war build 2550 BC but in 1991 a research team led by John Anthony West, Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch ascertained that the Egyptian Sphinx was at least 7,000 years old, possibly older. Photographer: Tatjana Ingold Location: Egypt Images:  [1-10] [11-20] [21-30] [31-40] [41-43]