King Amenhotep IV (1350-1334)

Hieroglyphic name: 
Horus name of Amenhotep IV
Nebti name of Amenhotep IV
Name: Akhenaten (Amenhotep), Neferkheperrewaenre, Wetjesrenenaten, Wernesytemakhetaten, and horus name of him: Meryaten (Kanakht Qaishuty).

Statue of Amenhotep IV
Throne name Neferkheperure waenre. Direct name Amenhotep IV. Son of Amenhotep III and Tiy. It is presumptive that he was not the eldest son, as a Prince Thutmose is attested but presumably died young. It is also not distinct if there was a coregency between his father and himself or whether he succeeded only upon his fathers death. Akhenaten searched to establish the higher status of the cult of Re-Harakhty in the figure of Aten, the sun disk. Following opposite in Thebes from the followers of Amun, he showed a new capital at Akhetaten, now Amarna, and built his royal tomb nearby. His foeman to the older cults step by step grew more intense, and they were finally proscribed. His sacred  beliefs  have  been  wrongly  described  as  monotheism,  as Akhenaten did not yield those cults related with the sun god or with kingship, namely his deify father and himself.

His reign is also noted for a hot new art style, which is far freer than older Egyptian convening and depicted the royal family and he himself in a particular manner. Some have sought to identify a medical trouble in this style, but it may only have been a new  artistic  pattern.  His  wife,  Nefertiti,  assumed  a  outstanding role  in  royal  pictures,  and  it  has  been  proposed  that  she  even  succeeded him. The circumstances that ended the reign are unknown. Akhenatens eventual heir, Tutankhamun, who may have been his son, abandoned Amarna and reverted to the idolise of Amun. Akhenatens name and that of his close successors were later out.



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Malkata

The ruins of Amenhotep III's palace, Malkata
A pleasure palace site on the west shore of the River Nile  at  Medinet Habu, south  of  Thebes, set up  by Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.), the original name for the situation may have been Djarukha, the Search for Evening or the Delight of Evening. Malkata is read as the Place Where Things Are Discovered in Arabic.

A miniature royal city, Malkata was grounded as part of Amenhotep IIIs first Heb-Sed fete, recording his  30th  regnal  year. Individual  palace  compounds  written the site, with administrative buildings, magazines, kitchens, and a temple to the God Amun. Residences for court officials were lavish, and all of the bodily structures were vividly  decorated.  An  artificial  lake,  the  Habu  (Birket Habu),  and  a  nurse  were  fabricated  for  the  part, connected to the Nile and constructed within a matter of weeks. A T-shaped harbor continues visible in modern times. The ruler and his courtiers sailed on a barge sacred to the god Aten when he visited Malkata, which in time got his royal hall. He built a palace there for his harem and  manufactured  others  for  Queen  Tiye (1) and  for Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), his heir.

Totally of  the  royal  abodes  were  elaborately  painted and raised by local artists. The entire complex, developed out of sun-dried bricks, was linked to a nearby funerary temple by a causeway dedicated to the god Amun, who was good in this shrine. The extravagant corteges of the palace and temples were finished and painted with views of daily life. Malkata was enlarged for the solemnization of Amenhotep III's extra sed festivals. A second lake was also fashioned on the eastern shore, and the site covered  more  than  80  acres. Malkata was  named  the House of Rejoicing during festivals.



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Tomb of Kheruef (TT192)

Reliefs inside the Tomb of Kheruef
Kheruef was a palace  official  of  the 18th Dynasty. He  helped  as  the  royal  custodian  of  Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.). Kheruefs heavy duties were engaged with  the  daily  administrative  matters  of  Queen  Tiye, Amenhotep  III's  dynamic  and  powerful  consort.

The tomb of Kheruef was not bright and he may not have been swallowed there. There is terms in the tomb due to the Amarna period wipeout of names of gods.  The images of Akhenaten (named as Amenhotep IV) were later expunged during the Ramesside period. The tomb is known for several settings showing the third Sed-festival of Amenhotep and Tiye.

Above the essential door are two scenes showing Amenhotep IV with his mother Queen Tiye before Atum and Hathor on one position and Re-Harakhty and Maat on the other. Hence Kheruef primary have helped as the steward of Queen Tiye early between year 37 of Amenhotep III and year 4 of Akhenaten. It is potential he served the royal family before and afterward those dates, but it is not known for particular. When Tiye saw Amarna (Akhet-Aten) later in the reign of Akhenaten (ca. year 9?), the Steward of Queen Tiye was named Huya.



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Tomb of Khaemhat (TT57)

Inside the Tomb of Khaemhat (TT57)
Khaemhat or Mahu was a Royal Scriber and the "Overseer of the Granaries of Upper and Lower Egypt". He attended during the dominate of Amenhotep. The only thing noted about his house is that he was marital to Tivi.

The Theban Tomb TT57 is set in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. It works part of the Theban Necropolis, settled on the west bank of the Rivr Nile different Luxor. The tomb is the burial place of the Ancient Egyptian established, Khaemhat who was Royal Scriber, Overseer of Royal Granaries, during the reign Amenhotep III.



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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)

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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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