Sun temple

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  • Egyptian Book of the Dead: Anubis
    In Egyptian art and architecture: Cult temples

    Sun temples were unique among cult temples; worship was centred on a cult object, the benben, a squat obelisk placed in full sunlight. Among the few temples surviving from the Old Kingdom are sun temples of the 5th-dynasty kings at Abū Jirāb (Abu Gurab). That…

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