18th Dynasty Places
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The Capital Cities
Great Building Achievements
The Palace City for the Royal Family and the administration to deal with the Governance of Egypt. It was the largest Palace City Complex in Egypt and covered 226,000 square meters, located between the Nile and the Theban Hills on the West Bank of Thebes
Great Building Achievements: The Temples
Karnak Temple, Thebes
Ipet Sut, “Most Select of Places” where nearly every Pharaoh of the New Kingdom Period made additions and alterations
Great Building Achievements: The Mortuary Temples, Mansions of Millions of Years
Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut
Djeser-Djeseru, The Sublime of the Sublimes, Holy of Holiests
Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III
It is often known as the Temple by the Colossi of Memnon. At the time of publishing the Temple is being re-erected by the Egyptian Authorities
Mortuary Temple of the Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb
Menmenu: Regrettably there is little to nothing left of the Mortuary Temple and little information is left to be discovered. It does appear as though Pharaoh Tutankhamun died before completing the Temple and so Pharaoh Ay took the Mortuary Temple on as his own which was then usurped by Pharaoh Horemheb as he did with many of his predecessors’ monuments
Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep II
Regrettably there is little to nothing left of the Mortuary Temple
Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Tuthmose IV
Regrettably there is little to nothing left of the Mortuary Temple
Mortuary Temple of Pharaoh Tuthmose III
Djeser-akhet, Holy of Horizon, Pharaoh Tuthmose III’s Mansion of Millions of Years
Great Building Achievements: The Valleys & their Tombs
Nobles Valley
The Tombs of the Nobles are dotted around much of the Theban Necropolis on the Western side of the River Nile at Thebes