Temple of Amenhotep III

Sky vies to the location of Amenhotep III's  temple
The largest temple in Thebes (and in Egypt) measruring 700 x 550 meters. Extended 4,200,000 square feet, larger even than Karnak. Architect was also described Amenhotep, but he was the son of Hapu. Used as a beginning of stone during the rule of Merenptah and quickly lost. Built so that during the alluvion, the Nile would deluge the outer hall and courtyard, leaving only the inner sanctuary old the water level. The swhole temple symbolized the outgrowth of life from the Nile when the waters withdrew. This did nothing for the natural selection of tahe temple  as some of the retaining walls were mudbruck. Likewise, the pylons and columns were too heavy for the weak foundations. Built by Amenhotep III in the last ten years of his rule. Never fully excavated, the only real remains are the two Colossi of Memnon, which stood at the catch to the temple. A few fragmentise of pylons remain.
Plan of Amenhotep III's Temple
There are many column bases in the solar court, along with fragments of straight statutes. Some of the homes have foreign place names, letting in references to the Aegean. Several crocodile-bodies sphinxes and a a few statues have besides been fond. There was one seated and one straight statue of Sekhmet for each day of the year. It is trusted that some of the great fallen statues in the Ramseseum  admitting the broken colossus  primitively were here. Almost flat ascross the nile from the Temple of Luxor at Kom el-Hetan. Down the colossi were two courtyards with other invested statues and a full of 3 pylons, each fronted with big colossi (the second of quartzite, the third of alabaster). Possibly the tallest scultural program in history (Betsy Bryan). A processional lines with sphinxes spread from the pylons to the solar court.

Most dedicated to Amun, but the northern part of the temple was given to Ptah or Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Takes a small, part limestone temple to Ptah-Sokar-Osiris in the northern part of the complicated. Totally destroyed.



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King Amenhotep III (1382-1344)

Hieroglyphic name: 

Horus name of Amenhotep III
Golden Horus name of Amenhotep III
Name: Amenhotep, Amenhotep, Nebmaatre, Lord of Truth is Re, Aakhepesh-husetiu, Kanakht Khaemmaat, Amenhetep, Amenophis.

Statue of Amenhotep III
Throne  name  Nebmare. Son of Thutmose IV of Dynasty 18 and Mutemwia. He may have won as a child and reigned 32 years. His reign,is famous for its magnificence in expression and arts. He saved the Egyptian empire in Asia and was in communication with the many princes of the area, as rendered in the Amarna letters. His great  queen worse,  Tiy,  was  the  mother  of  his  eventual  heir, Akhenaten, as it looks that his eldest son, Thutmose, predeceased him. King Amenhotep III married individual foreign princesses from Mitanni and Babylon. He also had some daughters, notably Sitamun, whom he married. A proposed coregency between father and son is suspect,  and  most  Egyptologists  scorn  the  feeling.  He  was  buried  in tomb KV 22 in the Valley of the Kings, and his body was cured from the royal cache in tomb KV35 of Amenhotep II. His morgue temple at Kom el-Hetan on the west bank distinct Thebes is mostly in ruins but featured the Colossi of Memnon and dedications observing the Keftyu. It has been under excavation by a German expedition since 1998.



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Tomb of Nakht (TT52)

Nakht and Taui offered offerings
The tomb of Nakht takes a gentle museum of drawigs of reliefs (under glass). Overseer of Amuns vines and garners for Tuthmosis IV and royal astronomer. Only the transverse hall is decorated.

Most representation fo Nakht are finished, usually assigned to the Amarna artists, bu his eyes are gouged out, which orders this may be personal. Inner chamber door is finished to look like Aswan granite. Particular statue was gone on the ss Arabia in 1917, the statue here is a replica. While royal tombs are usually received, the nobles tombs are quite unique. Scribe, Astronomer of Amun at the Karnak synagogue in the 18th dynasty, likely under Tuthmosis IV. Wife, Tawy, was a musician.

Agriculture process in Ancient Egypt
It was observed by villagers of Qurnain 1889. It was well genuine by Davies in 1917. During the 1980s, existential restoration and close measures were employed to preserve the tombs medallion. Small tomb, of a close corridor, a hall, a light corridor and the chapel. Decoration accept religious inscriptions, but high rual life, finish of grain, diggin go canalizes for irrigation, gleaning fishing and hunting. Has a forged door in the lobby.

On the left wall of the vesitbule are scenes of plantning grain and sifting it.  On the back wall is a funerary banquet, and the next scene indicates three lady instrumentalists, quite known. Right wall are hunting and fishing and grape harvesting scenes and deals of birds.



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Tomb of Menna (TT69)

Entrance of the Tomb of Menna
The Tomb of Menna (TT69) is one of the most visited and best saved of the small 18th Dynasty elite tombs in the Theban graveyard, yet it has never been consistently recorded or fully documented. Constant trial over a long period and dropping environmental circumstances have taken their toll on the painted secret.

This project began in 2006 with a feasibility study reading the existing conditions to design an appropriate action plan for recording, preservation, tribute and publication of the tomb. Several major tasks were accomplished during 2007, developing the first full certification and conditions study of the tomb chapel.

Fishing View from
the tomb of Menna
In the first phase, the tomb and its environs were surveyed to create the first exact plan of the chapel surrou

Archaeometry, including XRF, RAMAN spectrographic analysis, and colorimetry, was done in the fourth form to document the physical and chemical belongings of the picture and its matrix as well as to aid conservators and art historiographers in their analytic thinking of the tomb. Recent work weighted on digging of the tomb burials and bearing an archaeological view of the fore court.

The second phase united high-resolution digital images with an extensive net of easy points taken inside of the tomb to make an exact plan of the wall painting and ceiling medallion for software documentation purposes, digital epigraphy function, and the final publication. Conservators carried out picking tests on taken areas of the wall paintings.



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Tomb of Yuya and Thuya

Mummy of Yuya to left and Mummy Tjuyu to right
Yuya and his wife were burried in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, where their close KV46 tomb was discovered in 1905 by James Quibell, who was working on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. Although the tomb had been penetrated by tomb-robbers, perhaps they were touched as Quibell determined most of the funerary goods and the two mummies virtually intact. As the Egyptologist Cyril Aldred observed:

"Though the tomb had been stripped in antiquity, the tomb's rich funerary furniture was largely total, and there was no doubt as to the individuality of the pair, who were found staying among their torn linen wrappers, within their nests of coffins.".

The goods belowground with Yuya and Tjuyu named probably the finest ensemble of high-class New Kingdom furniture, etc., retrieved before the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun 17 years older.



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Tomb of Tuthmosis IV (KV43)

Inside the tomb of Tuthmosis IV (KV43)
Tomb (KV43) is, the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose IV, in the Valley of the Kings, in Luxor, Egypt. It has a dog-leg form, typical of the layout of advance 18th Dynasty tombs. KV43 was re-discovered in 1903 by Howard Carter

Placed high in the drops above the valley floor, it had been saved the extended flood-water damage got by other tombs, and its wall ornaments are consequently very well continued. The pharaoh's out stone sarcophagus is also still in place in the burial chamber. Two of the pharaoh's children, Prince Amenemhat and Princess Tentamun were likewise buried here.



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King Tuthmosis IV (1419-1386)

Hieroglyphic name: 
Hieroglyphic name of Thutmose IV
Name: Tuthmosis IV, Djehutymes IV, Tuthmosis, Born of the God Thoth, Djednisytmiitum, Kanakht Tutkhau.

Head of Thutmose IV
The son of King Amenophis II and Queen Tio, Tuthmosis IV was not the heir manifest and probably succeeded because of the death of an superior brother. In the Dream Stela, which dates to Year 1 of his rule, Tuthmosis IV tells the account of how, as a young man, he fell asleep near the Great Sphinx at Giza; afterward, in a dream, Harmachis (the deity was by the Sphinx) prophesied that the young prince would one day got king, but also expressed his displeasure with the sand which engulfed the body of the Sphinx. When Tuthmosis IV got king he therefore said the sand to be got away, and the stella was set up between the mitts of the Sphinx, to commemorate this event.

Little prove of the kings reign being. His funerary temple close the Rameseum at Thebes is upset continued; his tomb, sarcophagus and funerary furniture were named by Howard Carter, and in 1898, his mummy had been seen amongst those in the royal stash in the tomb of Amenophis II. Medical examination later broke that he had gone as a young man in his twenties. His foreign policy included a campaign in Nubia in Year 8 to check an penetration of desert folks men, and he also continued military action in the Asiatic responsibilities. His reign saw a major change in Syrian matters: here, neither the Ancient Egyptians nor the Mitannians could gain good supremacy, and so they last made a peaceful coalition, marking it with a purple marriage between Tuthmosis IV and the daughter of King Artatama I. It is likely that this Mitannian princess became Mutemweya, the kings Great Royal Wife. She is shown as the mother of Amenophis III in the views in the Temple of Luxor which render his bright birth. Because of Tuthmosis IV's early death, it is potential that there was no royal sister to got the wife of Amenophis III, and he thus broke the established pattern by marrying a commoner, Tiye.

Tuthmosis IV's rule is also healthy because there is evidence that at this time, the Aten came to be taken to be a separate deity; a scarab inscription mentions to the Aten as a god of struggles. Akhenaten, the grandson of Tuthmosis IV, was to break the cult of this god into a form of monotheism.



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Tomb of Userhat

Inside the Tomb of Userhat
Userhat held distinct titles during the reign of Amenhotep II of 18th Dynasty. His titles, rendered on his funerary monument, include "royal scribe", Overseer and Scribe of the Cattle of Amen", Bread counting scribe in Upper and Lower Egypt", and "deputy Herald". He was also referred to as a "child of the royal nursery, proposing that he was referred in the royal court as one of the associates of the royal children and was a close friend of the king in adulthood. His most outstanding title was 'Scribe who counts clams in Upper and Lower Egypt'. His wife was a lady described Mutneferet, who took the title of "royal grace". The tomb of Userhat (tomb TT56) can be got in the village region of Sheikh 'Abd el-Qurna, south of the tomb of Ramose (TT55).

The Tomb (TT56) is settled in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. It processes part of the Theban Necropolis, settled on the west bank of the Nile distinct Luxor. The tomb is the burial set of the Ancient Egyptian official, Userhat who was the Royal Scribe, Child of the Royal Nursery, through the 18th dynasty Amenhotep II, and his wife Mutnefret. TT56 is one of the best preserved Theban aristocracy tombs from Western Thebes and its reliefs boast many deep and brightly painted scenes portraying the deceased Userhat and Mutnefret taking gifts and nowadays in the hereafter.


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Tomb of Sennofer

Inside the tomb of Sennofer
Mayor of Thebes during the dominate of Amenhotep II, Sennofer developed his tomb on the west bank of the River Nile, on a high direct of the hill of Sheikh Abd-el-Gurna. The burial chamber is remarkable for its about hewn ceiling, an rolling open painted to resemble an arbor with vines and constellates of grapes. Described on a pillar in the tomb, Sennofer's wife Meryt nowadays to her husband a hoop containing a golden collar. The following text describes the gesticulate of her right hand, "making fast the double heart (amulet)," referring to the medal in the shape of two near hearts which hangs from Sennofer's neck. Within the hearts are written the prenomen and nomen of King Amenhotep II.



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Tomb of Amenhotep II

Burial chamber with inscriptions
from the book of the deads
The mummy of Amenhotep II was discovered in March 1898 by Victor Loret in his KV35 tomb in the Valley of the Kings within his particular sarcophagus. He had a mortuary temple manufactured at the edge of the refinement in the Theban Necropolis, good to where the Ramseum was later developed, but it was destroyed in ancient times. Amenhotep II's KV35 tomb also shown to bear a mummy hive up containing some New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II, Ramses III, Ramses IV, and Ramesses VI. They had been re-buried in Amenhotep II's tomb by the 21st Dynasty High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem II, through Siamun's reign, to keep them from tomb thiefs. The most close and harmonious discourse on the chronology, events, and touch of Amenhotep II's rule was published by Peter Der Manuelian, in a 1987 book on this king.



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