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In ancient Egypt, Heliopolis was a regional center from predynastic times. Model of a Votive Temple Gateway at Heliopolis, Dynasty XIX. It was principally notable as the cult center of the sun god Atum, who came to be identified with Ra and then Horus.
Heliopolis, one of the most ancient Egyptian cities and the seat of worship of the sun god, Re. It was the capital of the 15th nome of Lower Egypt, but Heliopolis was important as a religious rather than a political centre. During the New Kingdom (c. 1539–1075 bce) its great temple of Re was second.
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Oct 6, 2021 · However, in the middle of the third millennium BC, the city began to act as a center of solar worship. The old fetish gave way to a new one in the form of an obelisk, called the benben stone located in the sun god's temple in Heliopolis, a stone representing the Sunbeam, the symbol of the god Ra.
Jul 19, 2018 · For more than 2,500 years, Heliopolis was dedicated to the worship of the sun god Ra, who was believed to reside within the temple’s sacred temenos.
Nov 9, 2021 · Archaeologists have uncovered stone blocks and other interesting fragments that are helping them piece together the history of the once magnificent and extraordinary temple, dedicated to the sun god Ra in the El-Matariya area of Cairo’s upmarket suburb of Heliopolis.
Although Thebes, Egypt’s capital during the Middle and New Kingdoms (ca. 2030–1070 B.C.), is now far better known, ancient Egyptian sources referred to it as the “Heliopolis of the South,” and...
Heliopolis was probably the oldest religious center of Egypt. According to the Pyramid Texts, it was at Heliopolis that the god-creator Atum emerged from the chaos as a hill or mound and started on his work of creation.
