A tour of the Temple of Dendur at the Met
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2020
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The Temple of Dendur is the Met's largest exhibit - a complete stone building and surrounding walkways within an enormous gallery with floor to ceiling windows facing Central Park. Here visitors can do more than view an ancient Egyptian artifact. They can go inside one, while gazing at the park at the heart of New York City.
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This didn't cover Caesar Augustus' image at all?
That is an important feature of the temple, built during Augustus' rule over Egypt, though formally dedicated to two local youths who had drowned in the Nile, and were thus accorded divine homage by the local people.
Augustus personally owned Egypt
Well, he did fight Mark Anthony and Cleopatra
Has anyone on here been inside this exhibit? On my senior art class trip of 1994/95 I witnessed the images depicted inside that I've yet to see online in any format since can anyone on here please confirm what I know I saw? There is much more to this temple. All videos and photos only share what is outside of it not inside. I went back to share with my then girlfriend in 08 to prove what I saw but it was roped off and has been since. I know what I saw can anyone here attest?
3:14 .. they didn't understand that these 'things' were fragile, 200 years ago? .. oh, I think they knew. Can't help but think, to scrawl your name and date upon such a piece of history is appalling. It is my belief that true scholars would not do this.
Definitely they were not "scholars"......They were "stupids".....Should be sent to a jail for damaging art like that.....
It shows how we have evolved, even into the modern age and our values were different and became sophisticated. So it’s kind of understandable how important people in our past needs to be kept undefiled, and people try to cancel them. Which is basically what we are doing today, as well as people 200 years ago had a different values system, and had just come out of the abolitionist movement that freed the slaves. Basically at the same time that we finally recognized that slavery was wrong, we were still behaving this way with regards to important historical artifacts like this. So we have definitely moved forward in many respects to the present. But a hundred years before that 1800’s time, we had the Revolution and the establishment of this country. The men from that time were a product of their time as well, and we should preserve them with as much reverence as we do this Egyptian temple. That you can see for a price, if you are willing to risk your life in NYC at the present. My.. we have evolved.. haven’t we?
don’t you think it’s disrespectful for that temple to be in nyc? why and how was it transported to ny?
im pretty sure it was given to the met by the egyptian gov
It was given to the US by the democratically elected government of Egypt after the assistance of the U.S. to help relocate many important ancient structures from being flooded by the then yet to be built Nasser Dam. The US (along with several other nations and UNESCO) helped with moving the structures to above the flood area of Abu Simbel. Many historical sites in Egypt near the Nile were moved to prevent them from being permanently submerged.
because we are the new Roman empire of the world and we seize and have things as we wish! deal with that reality
i'm pretty sure it's always been there! unless you see video footage of being transported i wouldn't believe it.