Left to right: Orion, Sothis/Sirius and Anukis, above them the sky goddess Nut swallowing the evening sun.
Left to right: Orion, Sothis/Sirius and Anukis, above them the sky goddess Nut swallowing the evening sun. Experts from Egypt and Germany have finished restoring the ceiling of the Temple of Esna. Working over a period of five years, 30 specialists under the direction of Ahmed Emam cleaned the dirt and soot off hundreds of figures and astronomical representations, revealing them once more in their original colors. "The completion of the ceiling restoration marks the project's first and perhaps most important milestone," says Professor Christian Leitz of the Institute of Ancient and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Tübingen. "In the next few years, we want to focus on removing soot from the interior walls of the Pronaos and the remaining columns," he says. The restoration of the Temple of Esna is a joint project between the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the University of Tübingen. On the Egyptian side, project management was in the hands of Dr. Hisham El-Leithy.
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