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Dendera Temple Complex
Dendera Temple Complex, located about 2.5 kilometres south-east of Dendera, Egypt. The earliest extant building in the compound today is the Mammisi raised by Nectanebo II between 360-343 BC. The other temples are mostly Greco-Roman such as Hathor temple, also called Temple of Tentyra, which is the main temple in the colmplex that dating back to the Ptolemaic period in the 3rd century BC.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.by Bernard Gagnon, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 72 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2003
4th Century BC
Ancient Egyptians
Ptolemaic
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