By far, her stubbornness rubs off on many survivors.įrom time to time, Raia tends to argue with the captain of her city guard: John Dahkeya. In terms of its progress, Raia takes great care to make sure her people don't get hurt. Ever since she became the leader of her city, Nosti, Raia prioritizes her duties to keep the city well and thriving. Above all else, she is a pacifist who doesn't like violence but hates it even more when it becomes unnecessary. Her desire to bring in any helpless person justifies her personality. Raia is kind and perhaps too naïve when facing different situations.
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Ever since then, she wakes up on the Scorched Earth ARK with a heart full of faith.
Her curiosity about the deities comes from older priests and priestesses who declare the existence of them, although they are false to her. Because of its long history of construction and functionality, the gods worshipped at Karnak range from some of the earliest Egyptian deities to some of the latest, thus offering an impressive presentation of ancient Egyptian religious practices and beliefs.Raia grew up in the city of Luxor around the time of Ancient Egypt. The immense size of the complex, as well as its various architectural, artistic, and linguistic details make it an invaluable historical site and resource for understanding the evolution of ancient Egypt, and thus its conservation is critical. The area was in constant development and use between the Middle Kingdom (2080–1640 B.C.) and the early Christian period. The Karnak Temple is a massive temple complex to which dozens of pharaohs added their own constructions. Wilson Challenge to Conserve Our Heritage in partnership with the University of Chicago and the American Research Center in Egypt, assisted with emergency stabilization and repairs, removal of salts and chemicals, and the development of a long-term conservation treatment plan to address ongoing monitoring and maintenance issues to improve overall general conditions at the site and hopefully slow the pace of deterioration at the complex.
How We Helpedįrom 2001 to 2003, WMF, through the Robert W. Since many of the exterior surfaces contain relief carvings and hieroglyphs, this type of deterioration brings with it especially heavy losses to the historical record, threatening the integrity of the site and compromising scholars’ abilities to understand the meaning of these decorative elements. Over the last century, a rising water table and chemical degradation associated with the intensification of agricultural irrigation practices in the region have created new conservation problems and accelerated damage to the stones, foundations, and columns that have remained in place since antiquity. The buildings were in various states of ruin by the time they were encountered by Napoleon’s scholars and archaeologists in the early nineteenth century. In later centuries, Ptolemaic rulers and Coptic Christians altered parts of the complex for their own uses. After Memphis became the new dynastic capital, many of Luxor’s temples declined in importance. The Temple of Amun-Ra is particularly famous for the vast Hypostyle Hall constructed during the reign of Seti I. The most significant structure, and the largest religious building ever built, is the Temple of Amun-Ra, considered to be where that god lived on earth with his wife, Mut, and son, Khonsu, who also have temples at the site. It was, at its peak, the largest and most important religious complex in ancient Egypt.
The Karnak temple complex at Luxor developed over more than 1,000 years, principally between the Twelfth and Twentieth Dynasties.