Temple of Amun
Almost nothing remains of the largest temple every built in Egypt — a 700 x 550 meter, 4.2 million sqare foot temple that would have once stood behind the Colossi of Memnon
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Almost nothing remains of the largest temple every built in Egypt — a 700 x 550 meter, 4.2 million sqare foot temple that would have once stood behind the Colossi of Memnon
Read MoreThe Valley of the Queens has nearly 80 tombs, for queens and other wives, and many princes and other royal children. Many nobles and officials were buried here, long before the first queen was buried here.
Read MoreTomb of Amun-Hir-khopshef Unfortunately no pictures of this tomb, or the others we visited in the Valley of the Queens. We’ll be better for the Valley of the Nobles and Valley of the Kings Amun-Hir-Khopshef was the oldest son of Ramesses III. He died young and is shown in his tomb as a boy with […]
Read MoreThe small chapel of Hathor is on the south, past the colonnade with the reliefs of the trip to Punt is the Chapel to Hathor with a number of intact Hathor-headed columns.
Read MoreThe temple of Tuthmosis III lies directly against the side of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, but almost nothing remains except the stumps of columns and the faint outline of a ramp.
Read MorePerhaps the destination on the west bank of Thebes is the long, narrow wadi dotted with the burial shafts of the kings of the New Kingdom.
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