Denderah

Hereupon Mariette remarks – The temple of Denderah is not, then, one of the most modern in Egypt, except in so far as it was constructed by one of the later Lagidæ.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

But there is also a Samhúd lying a few miles down stream from Denderah and, as its mounds prove, it is an ancient site.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The prayers and even the dogmas of our church, are like the zodiac of Denderah, and the astronomical monuments of the

An Address 2006

In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah, some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a sculptured and painted planisphere, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

After excavating at Abydos and Denderah, Sir Henry finally obtained a firman to excavate in what is perhaps the most romantic of all Egyptian archaeological sites'the Valley of the Kings at Thebes.

The Curse of the Pharaohs Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- 1981

She longed to see the Temple, as she longed to go to Denderah, but not in a crowd; also, she longed to confide all her secrets (of which her visit to the Temple of Amnon was not one of the least) to her godmother.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

So to Denderah she went, with her spirits at highest pitch at the thought of getting away from Luxor for a few days and of seeing the wonderful Temple of Hathor, the goddess of Joy and Youth.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

He anathematised the postal system of Egypt; his own haste in accepting the girl's refusal; the oriental imagination which magnified cats into lions; but, above all, the wash of that steamer (upon which Damaris had returned from Denderah) which had re-floated his own craft and sent him racing full steam ahead for Cairo.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Arab saw Jill and Mary and Jack, followed discreetly by the same native woman, set sail at an early, gay and blithesome hour for Denderah, where are to be seen the ruins of the Temple of Hathor, the Venus of

Desert Love Joan Conquest

She was in riotous spirits when she arrived at the Hotel Denderah in

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest