The Egyptian workers, who were clearing away after a fire one of mosques in Luxor, have found out unique relieves of pharaoh Ramesses’ II (1279-1213 BC) times. Among them there were also mysterious hieroglyphs that still are undiscovered. As the Egyptian officials inform, during restoration of one of historically significant mosques art historians have opened segments of columns and capitals, and also carefully decorated relieves which concern to a courtyard of the ancient temple constructed about 1250 BC.
The mosque, in which restorers have found out fragments of Ancient Egypt architecture, is constructed in XIII C.E. in honor of Sufi Sheikh Abū'l–Haggag on a place of Christian church which, in its turn, was erected on the basis of the Egyptian temple.
As expert-egyptologist Ramond Johnson The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago which has examined fragments of Ancient Egypt temple in Luxor, Christians, and later and Moslems often enough erected their religious constructions on the basis of the Egyptian temples.
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