What is the way of rams? - Royal Mummies

Opening of the Rams Road in Luxor

Rams Road

Egypt succeeded for the first time in 3000 years in defining the "road of rams" in Luxor and to appear to the light again, as the road was backfilled over the ages and became underground.

What is the way of rams?

The Road of the Rams is a royal road linking Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple. The length of the road is about 2,700 meters and was used by the kings of "Ancient Egypt" in religious ceremonies and rituals.

We find that the road had two names in ancient times:

1. The first is Wat Nather, which means the way of the Lord
2. The second is "Ta Mi Rahn", which means the path of rams because the entire road was decorated with statues in the form of rams in the position of the Sphinx, and the ram here symbolizes the god Amun.

How was the discovery of the road of rams in Luxor?

As it is known, the road was buried underground for long periods of time. The first to discover the road was Dr. Zakaria Ghoneim in 1949, at the time of excavations, and the beginning was by finding 14 rams.

Then came Dr. Mohamed Abdel Razek in the sixties of the twentieth century and found 64 rams, and the big surprise came in the year 2002 when Dr. Mohamed Al-Sagheer concluded that this road is complete with a length of 2.7 km and decorated with 1200 rams, and he determined the path of the road, but most of it was under Earth.

The beginning was that the road (Abu Asba) was built many years ago, and no one dared to think of removing all the irregularities above the road in order to bring the royal road back to life again.

The real political will come during the era of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who wanted to exploit all the state’s resources in economic development and decided to revive the road of rams. Two years ago, the idea of ​​the project came back to light again, and indeed hundreds of buildings were removed from the hamlet, houses, mosques, churches, and government buildings.