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Originally Posted by souldancer
I have been to Egypt twice and each time I scour the temples for depictions of dancers and musicians! I would be especially interested in where you located the images of dancers in Luxor and Karnak temples? It is such a special thrill as a dancer to look upon these ancient sisters carved for eternity on these walls! I would love to see them!
Tombs of the Nobels have the wonderful "3 musicians" which has been my highlight of 'tomb experiences' so far!
Cheers
Margaret
Australia
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It's hard to describe, but I"ll try. At the Luxor temple, it's on the wall that runs parallel to the Nile, along the street. It's on the "indoor" side of that wall, about eye level, near the north end of the temple.
These "dancers" could also be called "acrobats" or "gymnasts" - they appear to be doing handsprings. There is a guy playing a harp squatting next to them and some women playing sistrums.
Karnak temple is harder to describe. I hired my tour guide for a private tour, and he took me into the section of Karnak temple that you have to pay an extra special admission fee to enter. There is a small rectangular building in there which allegedly was built by Hatshepsut, and that had some of the images on its outside walls. It includes the same images that were at Luxor temple: handsprings, harpist, women playing sistrum, etc. He led me through the area to show me some additional ones.