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 ...

A mysterious ancient sun temple dating back 4,500 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in an Egyptian cemetery for the pharaohs. Sun temples were built to honor the most powerful ancient ...

A team of archaeologists has unearthed an ancient Egyptian cemetery for the pharaohs ... and that the discovery of the possible sun temple and its contents may change the current history known ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory at a temple site ... been used to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Egyptian archaeologists discovered what they thought were the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple dating back ... east (toward the rising sun). Within the hall were images of ...