🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Dendera Temple of Hathor
Late Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE; zodiac 50 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Best-preserved Hathor temple with 24 sistrum columns, crypt 'Dendera light' reliefs and zodiac ceiling (54 BCE).
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient technology
Ptolemaic construction 54 BCE Hathor temple; crypts late Ptolemaic · Egyptian Late temple cosmogony priests (late dynastic theology)
Dendera crypt lotus-snake on djed pillar — von Däniken's 1968 'Crookes bulb' misread of creation cosmogomy.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Late Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE; zodiac 50 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Best-preserved Hathor temple with 24 sistrum columns, crypt 'Dendera light' reliefs and zodiac ceiling (54 BCE).