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Silver 2025 Architecture / Aerial / Drone

The Ramesseum From Above

  • Photographer
    Patricia Mora
  • Agency / Studio
    Patricia Mora Photography

Bird's eye view of the mortuary temple of Ramesses II, also known as Ramesseum, from a hot-air balloon. The aerial point of view allows to appreciate the plan of the temple with all its different spaces: the pylons separating the courtyards, the hypostyle hall, the sanctuary at the end, and all the surrounding structures such as the palace (bottom left), the cultic areas and the granaries or storage rooms (top and top right respectively). Aerial photography has proven to be a useful tool in archaeology that has been widely used, for instance, to detect structures hidden under the ground.

Born in Barcelona in 1983. While doing a degree in History, specialized in Egyptology, she discovered her passion for photography and studied photography and professional lighting. She combined both passions for a living, working as an archaeological photographer in Egypt, with national and international archaeological projects in Cairo, Luxor and Aswan since 2006, and photographing daily life in Egypt during her working stays in the country. She has exhibited in Jaén and Alcalá de Henares, with the topics of the results of the Spanish archaeological projects she currently works with in Egypt.

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