Open Air Museum 24 Hours after the official opening

Luxor Times was at the mummification museum for Dr. Ray Johnson and he was talking at a part of his lecture about Chicago House work at Luxor Temple and mentioned that the opening for the open air museum will take place on Monday 29 , March 2010.
Luxor Times was there on Tuesday and brought to you those photographs of some of the fragments that Chicago House put so much effort and work to be able to display them for visitors.
Only one down side to it that tour guides don't tell people about it.So many visitors at the temple but only 3 were walking around in the open air museum for almost an hour.
People need to know about it and start to go and have a look.Believe me , you will enjoy it so much as there is a wide range of fragments cover different eras of Egyptian history from Pharaohs time to mid 1960s.

Well , we will leave you now to enjoy looking at the photos Luxor Time took for you but remember that it doesn't stop you from going to Luxor Temple and see it yourself.

New Discovery In Karnak

A large red granite false door belongs to the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut’s vizier User and his wife Toy has been unearthed in front of Karnak Temple.

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced the find, adding that this discovery was carried out by an Egyptian excavation team during a routine excavation work.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), explained that the door is 175 cm tall, 100 cm wide and 50 cm thick. It is engraved with religious texts, as well as different titles of the vizier User, who took office in the fifth year of Queen Hatshepsut’s reign. His titles included mayor of the city, vizier, and prince. Hawass said that tomb number 61 on Luxor’s west bank belonged to User.

Mansour Boraik, Supervisor of Luxor Antiquities and the head of the Egyptian excavation mission, said that the newly discovered door was reused during the Roman period: it was removed from the tomb of User and used in the wall of a Roman structure previously found by the mission.

Boraik said that User is the uncle of the well-known vizier Rekhmire, who was King Tuthmosis III’s vizier (1504-1452 BC). A chapel of User was also found in the Silsila mountain quarries in Aswan, which attests to his importance during Hatshepsut’s reign, as well as the importance of the post of vizier in ancient Egypt, especially during the 18th Dynasty. Among the most well-known viziers during this dynasty were Rekhmire and Ramose from the reigns of kings Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV as well as the military chief Horemheb, who later came to Egypt’s throne as the last king of the 18th Dynasty.