Egyptian Sand Sculptures - August 2005
The world's biggest sand sculptures were created at
Black Rock, near Brighton Marina during the summer in 2005. We
went along to have a look at this amazing Egyptian village sculptured
entirely out of sand.
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The entrance to the Egyptian sand sculpture village cost £6 and after
buying our ticket we walked through the entrance straight into...
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...the gift shop! That's strange, the gift shop is usually at the
exit. Various Egyptian artefacts could be brought in the shop, we
carried on through to the...
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...Egyptian sand village. Now, where to start in this intriguing
40,000 sq ft sand creation? We ended up wandering around the
wrong way, opps!
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Here's Osiris, the god of the dead and underworld ruler, sculptured in
sand. Alongside is Mike, the god of beer, and he's made of flesh
and blood!
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With a modern accommodation block as a backdrop to the sand sculpture
village at Black Rock, it didn't quite feel ancient Egypt
somehow. But we sure had Egyptian type weather though.
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Now here's some hieroglyphics carved in the sand. The Egyptians
were quite chatty with their hieroglyphics (holy, engraved writing);
this was one of many in the sand village at Brighton.
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In a tented area in the village this scene depicted the moment
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Just
the month before we had visited the Tutankhamun
Museum in Dorchester.
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Mike posing again, this time by a sand sculpture of a crock. All
the sculptures were made entirely of sand and water, but using a
special type of sand that doesn't fall apart in the rain.
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The sand artists must have spent hours carefully sculpturing all the
Egyptian gods, these ones were between the lofty pyramids, also made of
sand.
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We took tons of pictures as we wandered around all the fascinating
Egyptian sand sculptures at Brighton, resulting in some 300 images to
sort through!
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We can tell you the refreshment area was very welcome on a hot August
day, here we enjoyed an ice cream after the hot and sticky walk among
the sand sculptures. Now, just the gift shop to visit again then!
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We took this shot from the marina wall and it shows just part of the
awesome 2005 Egyptian sand sculpture village in Brighton. Please
see our UK tourist resources
for some sand sculpture websites.
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