Photo Luxor... shades of past on present by silvia marmori

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Luxor... shades of past on present

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travel, architecture, landscape

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Africa

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magic places

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Al-Uqsur, in Arabic or Luxor meaning the Palaces was a small Nile village famous only for the annual festival with which it celebrated the renowed 13th-century Sufi Shaykh Yusuf Abu al-Hajjaj.
In the early 19th century, however, French archaeologists discovered that the village indeed deserved its name. Beneath the mosque that was built around Shaykh Yusuf's tomb, a vast temple lay buried.
As the temple was excavated the mosque was left intact and is still in use today. Therefore, from ancient times, through the Christian period and into the Muslim present this patch of earth has been a place of devout worship

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Fri 6 May 2005 15:31

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miguel #1 Fri 6 May 2005 15:32

Uma luz bem bonita. Um abraзo!

yves ralim #2 Fri 6 May 2005 15:34

he men formerly have been able to built these wonders... The past was made of shadows and lights, and this photograph is a splendid capture, of them. I like the angle of vision, the colors, the mysterious play of the shades and the lights.