11/11/2021
Soon Rams' Road Celebration
About five thousand years ago, the kings of ancient Egypt began building a road linking the sites of the Luxor and Karnak temples, which had not yet been built, as the land of Karnak was considered a sacred land, and it seems that a form of worship of the god Amun Karnak was taken as a place for it before the unification of the country, so the Egyptians built a road of rams to follow the sacred processions of the kings and gods in the celebrations of the Eid Eubet or the festival of the Ibt every year. Their holy boats in a large ceremonial procession.
The ancient Egyptian called this road, which is about 2700 meters long and 76 meters wide, the name "Wat Nathr" or "WAt-nTr", meaning the path of the god. As for the road of rams in the temples of Karnak, it was known as "Ta- Mitt-Rahanat, which means the way of rams, and the road consists of a sandstone pavement lined with statues in the form of a sphinx with a ram's head, which number 1200 statues.
The statues of rams were carved from a single block of sandstone, with a cornice inscribed with the king's name, title and praise, on a stone base consisting of 4 courses of stone used due to the presence of some inscriptions and they may be held in two forms: First: They take the form of the body of a lion and the head of a human being The second (Sphinx): It takes the shape of the body of a ram and the head of a ram, surrounded by basins of flowers and streams of water for irrigation, and in the middle of it is a rectangular floor, with dimensions of 120 by 230 centimeters of sandstone to facilitate walking on it, and between each statue and statue a gap of four meters.
