Dendara Temple Half Day Tour – Code TTNLX – 6

In the morning. Your  tour guide will be pick you up from your hotel to start your tour and you will travel to the north of Luxor city to visit The temple of Dendera.

In a relatively isolated location on the edge of the desert, about 2.5 km southwest of the modern town, there is a Greco-Roman temple, known in ancient Egypt as “Lonit” or “Tentra”. The site of the modern town was the capital of the Upper Egyptian region.

Dendera dates back to the predynastic period in Egypt. This is evidenced by the ancient tombs near the wall of the Temple of Hathor. Dendera was the capital of the Sixth Khor of Upper Egypt, and Hathor was its main deity. The system of the Temple of Hathor dates back to the reign of Khufu, and it was later restored by Pepi I.

When the temple was excavated, the temple was covered by sand to about half, which preserved the drawings on the walls of the temple and prevented it from being looted. The upper rooms of the temple were found to be inhabited, and people lived in them for long periods. They used to light fires for their food and to keep warm, so we still find traces of soot on the interior ceilings of the temple today, making the restoration process difficult.

After finishing your day tour, You will be transferred back to your hor hotel in Luxor.