El Kab

The sun was already high as we approached El Kab, the ancient city of Nekheb, nestled on the Nile's east bank. Immediately, the immense scale of the mud-brick town walls stunned me. They were a towering, rust-colored testament to millennia, thick enough to hold back an army—or maybe just the sheer weight of time.
Beyond the walls, the main draw lay in the cliffs: the rock-cut tombs. These weren't the colossal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, but intimate, vivid canvases of ancient life. Inside, the colors in the tomb of the warrior Ahmose, son of Ibana, were breathtakingly preserved. I traced the painted stories of battles and court life, realizing this was where the founding of the New Kingdom was chronicled.Leggi altro