Egypt
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 back to the mortuary temple.
The kings mortuary temple was in good condition only for a little more than a century after it was built in the first half of the fourteenth century BC. The Nineteenth dynasty King Merenptah used many of the blocks from Amenhotep's temple in his own construction in the closing years of the thirteenth century BC.
The two statues in question were destroyed in a massive well recorded earthquake in 27 BC where they collapsed and broke to pieces.
- Imalqata Project Update - Everything Amenhotep
iMalqata Project 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...
- The Raising Of Amenhotep Iii
The Egyptian antiquities service has re-erected 2 statues on their original site in the memorial temple of Amenhotep III at Luxor. Amenhotep III was known as "the magnificent" because he reigned at the epoch of the Egyptian empire in the middle of the...
- Raising Amenhotep
The northern of two colossal statues which stood in front of the mortuary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III who died in the middle of the 14th century bc has been stood up. It is a beastly piece of rubble with the exception that the great...
- 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...
- Revisiting The Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple
This is a re-review of an older story from 2007. The mortuary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III must have been quite the most sumptuous ever created. This kings reign was an artistic high, sadly little more than a century later an...
Egypt
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 back to the mortuary temple.
The kings mortuary temple was in good condition only for a little more than a century after it was built in the first half of the fourteenth century BC. The Nineteenth dynasty King Merenptah used many of the blocks from Amenhotep's temple in his own construction in the closing years of the thirteenth century BC.
The two statues in question were destroyed in a massive well recorded earthquake in 27 BC where they collapsed and broke to pieces.
- Imalqata Project Update - Everything Amenhotep
iMalqata Project 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...
- The Raising Of Amenhotep Iii
The Egyptian antiquities service has re-erected 2 statues on their original site in the memorial temple of Amenhotep III at Luxor. Amenhotep III was known as "the magnificent" because he reigned at the epoch of the Egyptian empire in the middle of the...
- Raising Amenhotep
The northern of two colossal statues which stood in front of the mortuary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III who died in the middle of the 14th century bc has been stood up. It is a beastly piece of rubble with the exception that the great...
- 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...
- Revisiting The Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple
This is a re-review of an older story from 2007. The mortuary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III must have been quite the most sumptuous ever created. This kings reign was an artistic high, sadly little more than a century later an...