Egypt
- Dig Diary: Malqata
iMalqata The Malqata excavation is now underway at Luxor, and a dig diary with plenty of photographs can be found at the above address. Other tabs show information about the site, including its history. Here's a short expert: While the tombs of the...
- Finds At Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii Indicate Possible Avenue
Suite101 (Robert McRoberts) On May 17th, 2010 the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced it had discovered a possible avenue of colossal statues leading from the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III to the banks of the Nile River. Eighty statues...
- Travel Snapshots: The Colossi Of Memnon
Al Ahram Weekly Some 1,000-tonne twin statues have been standing firm for more than 3,400 years at the entrance of the Theban Necropolis. Mohamed El-Hebeishy takes off the shroud around the Colossi of Memnon. Amenhotep III ruled for about 40 years during...
- The Reconstruction Of Amenhotep Iii
Two 14 m colossal sandstone statues of King Amenhotep III discovered in that kings mortuary temple in 1933 have been uncovered and packed to be shipped to a dryer climate to be reconstructed and consolidated with the intent of returning them...
- Discoveries At The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Here we have an article of recent discoveries made by archaeologists at the site of the 18th dynasty mortuary temple of Amenhotep III ca. 1390-1352B.C.. The recent finds include a rare colossal alabaster statue of the king and a granodiorite head of a...
Egypt
iMalqata Project update - Everything Amenhotep
iMalqata Project
With some useful links.
With some useful links.
2012 is turning out to be the year of Amenhotep III. In addition to our work at his jubilee palace-city at Malqata, excavations and restoration projects are going on in the king’s mortuary temple, his tomb in the West Valley of the Kings, and at the tomb of his Steward, Nefersekheru who was probably in charge of all the goings-on at Malqata.
The walls of Amenhotep’s immense mortuary temple disappeared long ago, but what visitors to Egypt know as the Colossi of Memnon, are, in fact, two seated statues of the king that originally flanked the entrance to this temple. At over 700 meters in length (more than 2200 feet) this was the largest single temple ever built in Egypt (Karnak is, of course, much larger, but it consists of several temple buildings, and the main temple was added to over some 2000 years).
Much of the stone of Amenhotep’s mortuary temple was used later for other building projects, and the remains of the temple were eventually covered by a deep deposit of mud from the Nile’s annual inundation. By the 20th Century, little remained above ground save for the two colossi.
- Dig Diary: Malqata
iMalqata The Malqata excavation is now underway at Luxor, and a dig diary with plenty of photographs can be found at the above address. Other tabs show information about the site, including its history. Here's a short expert: While the tombs of the...
- Finds At Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii Indicate Possible Avenue
Suite101 (Robert McRoberts) On May 17th, 2010 the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced it had discovered a possible avenue of colossal statues leading from the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III to the banks of the Nile River. Eighty statues...
- Travel Snapshots: The Colossi Of Memnon
Al Ahram Weekly Some 1,000-tonne twin statues have been standing firm for more than 3,400 years at the entrance of the Theban Necropolis. Mohamed El-Hebeishy takes off the shroud around the Colossi of Memnon. Amenhotep III ruled for about 40 years during...
- The Reconstruction Of Amenhotep Iii
Two 14 m colossal sandstone statues of King Amenhotep III discovered in that kings mortuary temple in 1933 have been uncovered and packed to be shipped to a dryer climate to be reconstructed and consolidated with the intent of returning them...
- Discoveries At The Mortuary Temple Of Amenhotep Iii
Here we have an article of recent discoveries made by archaeologists at the site of the 18th dynasty mortuary temple of Amenhotep III ca. 1390-1352B.C.. The recent finds include a rare colossal alabaster statue of the king and a granodiorite head of a...