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At Karnak, there even was an attempt to wall up her obelisks.
At Karnak, Tefnut formed part of the Great Ennead and was invoked in prayers for the health and wellbeing of the Pharaoh.
New Kingdom Ramesside Pharaohs, in particular, were enamored of Mother Nephthys, as is attested in various stelae and a wealth of inscriptions at Karnak and Luxor, where Nephthys was a member of that great city's Ennead and her altars were present in the massive complex.
This choice of completion for the triad should have proved popular, but because the isheru, the sacred lake outside Mut's ancient temple in Karnak at Thebes, was the shape of a crescent moon, Khonsu, the moon god eventually replaced Menthu as Mut's adopted son.
Most of the construction of the temple complex at Karnak was centered on Khonsu during the Ramesside Period.
The major sites of the middle east that were visited included in Egypt, Dendera, Temple of Edfu, Philae ( it was here that he met his future client William John Bankes on 13 January 1819 ), then returning back up the Nile to Thebes, Luxor and Karnak then back to Cairo and Giza with its pyramids.
The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut (" The Most Selected of Places ") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head.
The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used.
Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.
* Lara Croft visited Karnak for three levels in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation ( Temple of Karnak, The Great Hypostyle Hall and Sacred Lake ) and it was featured in the level editor package.
Its manufacture was started by Thutmose III and it was erected by Thutmose IV before the great Karnak temple of Thebes, Egypt.
Carved from pink granite, it was originally erected at the Temple of Karnak in Luxor during the reign of Tuthmosis III in about 1490 BC.
The treaty was given to the Egyptians in the form of a silver plaque, and this " pocket-book " version was taken back to Egypt and carved into the Temple of Karnak.
The oldest water clock of which there is physical evidence dates to c. 1417-1379 BCE, during the reign of Amenhotep III where it was used in the Temple of Amen-Re at Karnak.
Psamtik II led a foray into Nubia in 592 BC, marching as far south as the Third or even the Fourth Cataract of the Nile according to a contemporary stela from Thebes ( Karnak ) which dates to Year 3 of this king's name and refers to a heavy defeat that was inflicted upon the kingdom of Kush.
On the other hand, if the Karnak inscription was concurrent with Shoshenq's campaign into Canaan, the fact that it was left unfinished would suggest this campaign occurred in the last year of Shoshenq's reign.
During the battle Unus faced Karnak, who was amazed that he could not break Unus ' shield.
Covering a total of, even later rivals such as Ramesses II's Ramesseum or Ramesses III's Medinet Habu were unable to match it in area ; even the Temple of Karnak, as it stood in Amenhotep's time, was smaller.
Karnak, despite not receiving the attention given it by his father, also was not totally neglected.
Thutmose IV completed the eastern obelisk first started by Thutmose III, which, at 32 m ( 105 ft ), was the tallest obelisk ever erected in Egypt, at the Temple of Karnak.

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The obelisk, still recognizably a solar symbol, had been moved from Karnak to Alexandria with what is now the Lateran obelisk by Constantius II ).
She also restored the original Precinct of Mut, the ancient great goddess of Egypt, at Karnak that had been ravaged by the foreign rulers during the Hyksos occupation.
The Karnak temple complex is first described by an unknown Venetian in 1589, although his account relates no name for the complex.
The square in front of the Lateran Palace has an obelisk commissioned by Pharaoh Thuthmose III and completed by his grandson Thutmose IV in Karnak.
Brand who has published an extensive biography on this Pharaoh and his numerous works, stresses in his thesis that relief decorations at various temple sites at Karnak, Qurna and Abydos which associate Ramesses II with Seti I, were actually carved after Seti's death by Ramesses II himself and, hence, cannot be used as source material to support a co-regency between the two monarchs.
However, the attention paid by numerous scholars to the fact that not a single highland Judean town appears in the Karnak list would indicate that this matter is hardly frivolous or exaggerated.
However, Wilson's view is not supported by Kenneth Kitchen who states: " That the great topographical list of Shoshenq I at Karnak is a document of the greatest possible value for the history and nature of his campaign against Judah and Israel is now clearly established beyond all dispute, thanks to the labours expended on that list by a series of scholars.
After the Egyptian conquest of Beit She ’ an by pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BCE ( recorded in an inscription at Karnak ), the small town on the summit of the Tell became the center of the Egyptian administration of the region.
The earliest written record is in a list of Canaanite towns drawn up by the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III at Karnak in 1465 BC.
The thirteenth and twelfth-century inscriptions and carvings at Karnak and Luxor are the only sources for " Sea Peoples ", a term invented by the Egyptians themselves and recorded in the boastful accounts of Egyptian military successes:
This Karnak temple wall depicts a list of city states conquered by Shoshenq I in his Near Eastern military campaigns.
This is attested, in part, by the discovery of a statue base bearing his name from the Lebanese city of Byblos, part of a monumental stela from Megiddo bearing his name, and a list of cities in the region comprising Syria, Philistia, Phoenicia, the Negev and the Kingdom of Israel, among various topographical lists inscribed on the walls of temples of Amun at al-Hibah and Karnak.
This data is supported by two dated inscriptions from Years 8 and 9 of his reign bearing his cartouche found inscribed on a stone block in Karnak.
However, apart from several surviving blocks of buildings erected by the king at Semna, Kumma, and Elephantine, Thutmose II's only major monument consists of a limestone gateway at Karnak that once lay at the front of the Fourth Pylon's forecourt.
These works included the fourth and fifth pylons, numerous courts and statues, the completion of the Treasury expansion begun by Amenhotep I, and a hypostyle hall of cedar wood constructed at Karnak to commemorate Thutmose I's victory over the Hyksos.
" This small alabaster chapel of Thutmose IV has today been carefully restored by French scholars from the Centre Franco-Egyptien D ' Étude des Temple de Karnak ( CFEETK ) mission in Karnak.

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It is considered that the Jews brought it in The Exodus from Egypt, where the Egyptologist and archaeologist Victor Loret found it depicted on the walls of the botanical garden at the Karnak Temple, which dates back to the time of Thutmosis III.
Senenmut supervised the quarrying, transport, and erection of twin obelisks, at the time the tallest in the world, at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak.
While there is a temple of Opet at Karnak, dating to the Late Period and Ptolemaic era, " it was the cult of Taweret that gained particular importance over time.
The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used.

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This development would also account for the mostly unfinished state of decorations of Shoshenq's building projects at the Great Temple of Karnak where only scenes of the king's Palestinian military campaign are fully carved.
Despite the antiquity of the Sed Festival and the hundreds of references to it throughout the history of Ancient Egypt, the most detailed records of the ceremonies — apart from the reign of Amenhotep III — come mostly from " relief cycles of the Fifth Dynasty king Neuserra ... in his sun temple at Abu Ghurab, of Akhenaten at East Karnak, and the relief cycles of the Twenty-second Dynasty king Osorkon II ... at Bubastis.

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