Set apart from all other features are these giant square alabaster “dishes” containing strange gear-like designs on their surface. It truly is one of the strangest places in Egypt.īut as if the history of the entire place, and its strange energies weren’t enough, theres more at Abu Gorab that will make you love the place. To understand this theory you’d have to visit the site and see the massive stone block scattered all over the place. Some would argue that this place was intentionally destroyed by a massive show of force. Just as the ruins of Puma Punku in Bolivia, the site of Abu Gorab appears to have ‘survived’ a cataclysmic event that caused its nearly total destruction. Many authors have concluded after visiting the site that whoever laid these massive stones into position, had an extraordinary accuracy.Īnd while I can’t even imagine how beautiful the place must have been when it was completed thousands of years ago, its remains stand evidence of some sort of cataclysmic event that may have occurred there in the distant past: The massive stone blocks are scattered across the site as if some unknown force caused these casing stones to be scattered all over the site. Curiously, these massive blocks feature incredible characteristics: precision cuts, extremely well-polished surfaces and most importantly, these massive blocks were mounted in place with incredible precision as facing stones on the pyramid. The site is also home to these massive colossal red granite blocks which weigh several tons. Notice its incredible perfection and accuracy. According to experts, when the structure was built, the total height of the obelisk was most likely somewhere between fifty and seventy meters.Ību Gorab is truly a mysterious place. Estimates of the combined height of the obelisk and base vary. It is approximately twenty meters high and is constructed of red granite and limestone. The obelisk’s base is a pedestal, with sloping sides and a square top. It is worth mentioning that the solar temples are oriented from east to west, curiously like the pyramids of the monarchs-Userkaf and Nyuserra-in Abusir.Ību Gorab was also home to a massive obelisk, of which only its foundations remain standing today.Īrchaeological excavations at the western end of the courtyard revealed what appear to be the ruins of a large stone obelisk, which, according to experts, symbolized the resting place of the Sun/Ra. Some authors suggest that the solar temples of Abu Gorab were used as places from which astronomical observations were carried out in order to determine the hours of the night. However, only two have been identified today: that of Userkaf and that of Nyuserra, which is the best-preserved Sun Temple at the site. In Ancient times, Abu Gorab was covered in so-called Sun Temples.Īccording to ancient Egyptian history, six solar temples existed at Abu Gorab, north of Abusir, dating from the fifth dynasty. This Egyptian Sun Temple is meant to represent ritually the vivifying power of the sun god Ra, according to the religious conception of the priests of Heliopolis. The Remains of a Pyramid at Abu Gorab, near Giza. Part of the pyramid complex at Abu Sir, the sun temple at Abu Gorab was supposedly constructed during the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, or sometime around 2400 BC. Referred to as Sun Temple by modern archeologists, this ancient site is well-known for being a cult place of the God Ra. Located a mere twenty-minute drive from one of the greatest ancient monuments built on the surface of the planet-the Great Pyramid of Giza-lay the remains of another ancient treasure of Egypt: Abu Gorab.
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