Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra at the site ... had two limestone columns. Related: Ancient temple dedicated to Zeus ...

That is because officials from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities claim it could the remains of an ancient lost sun temple, one of just four. Sun temples were constructed to honour ...

The German-Egyptian ... Matariya’s Sun Temple in the areas west and south of the Heliopolis Open Air Museum in Matariya on the outskirts of Cairo. Aymen Ashmawy, head of the Ancient Egyptian ...

Related: The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky and how ... stone sundial" that measured time by the movements of the sun. The temple building itself faced east, the direction from which the ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory at a temple site ... track the movement of the sun and stars.

In order to tell time once the sun set, the ancient Egyptians ... and those from the Egyptian Antiquities Authority at Athribis, a roughly 75-acre site that includes the temple complex, a ...

An ancient temple that ... According to Egyptian officials, Ramesses II built the temple to honor Amun-Ra, the Egyptian god of the air, the sun and creation. After an earthquake struck Egypt ...