The Golden Age of Egypt: High Culture, Architecture, Archeology and Art - Dynasties XVIII - XX-African Historiography
Pharaoh And King Menkaura

King Menkaura (Mycerinus) Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaura, 2490–2472 B.C.
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The chronology of the New Kingdom continuum and towards its end; the beginning of the Third Intermediate Periods begin

This beautiful quartzite sarcophagus was created by Hatshepsut and used to bury her late father, Thutmose I

The Temple of Karnak was known as Ipet-isut. It is a city of Temples built more than 2000 years ago and was and was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun(Amon), Mut and Khonsu

The Karnak Complex is a vast assembly of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings. It's ancient Egypt's main place of worship and is the largest Ancient religious site in the World(18th Dynasty - !550-1291)

Everything in Karnak in in a gigantic scale; the site covers over two square miles, contains about 10 Cathedrals, and the Temple of Amun is the largest religious building ever built.

The GranoDiorite blocks personifies nomes of Upper Egypt. Figures are shown kneeling and presenting offering

Pharaoh Thutomose on the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, with his chief whife Queen Ahmose and daughter of Neferubity. (The father , nther and sister of Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir-le-Bahri, designed by Senemut, her vizier, and it was the first complex built on the site she choose, which would become the Valley of the Kings

The Temple at Deir-el-Bahri served as a record of major even in Hatshepsut's reign. It has scenes depicting a trading expedition to Pun. The are also scenes of her coronation

Eitghteenth Dynasty (~1472-1458 BCE) Widow of Thutmosisi II, she ruled first as regent for his minor son and heir, and then as Pharaoh, a female Horus. Her Titles were "King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Maatkare, and Daughter of Re"

Hatshepsut(Maatkare) is depicted in a fake beard and with objects that a Pharaoh is usually depicted with, and in male attire, after a few years of ruling in female form

Thutmosis III. Ofiicials of an Italizn Museum decided to give Tutmosis III a new nose in a crude and outrageous attempt to change his racial appearance

Amenhotep II, sixth King of Dynasty 18, and son of corregent of Thutmosis III. He preserved hegemony over most of Nubia and Levant, of those military campaigns initiated by Thustmosis III

Nefrusebek Cleopatra formed friendships with the emperors of Rome. This particular statue is showing the waning years of Egyptian rule, but their art still supreme.

The royal tomb of Amenhotep III, situated in the Western Valley of the Kings and is one of the most important tombs at this site, and is registered on the World Heritage List

Mural painting of Adoration of the gods in the tomb of of Thutmosis IV, in the Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings

A painting based on an authentic tomb painting of Pharaoh Thutmosis IV in his war chariot, with bow and arrow

Amenhotep the son of Hapu and Amenhotep III's master Architect. Like the great 3rd Dynasty architect, Imhotep, Amenhotep the son of Hapu was elevated to the status of God in the late Ptolemic period

Lion of Amenhotep III that guarded a temple build by Amenhotep III and was re-inscribed for Tutankhamun

The chief Archeologist, Zahi Hawaas, said the black statue of Amenhotep III was made of Black Granite

These beautiful gold and precious-stone canopic coffinttes were created to hold the mummified organs of the Pharaoh Tutankhanum

Both these Diadems belonged to Tutankhamun. Left: at the front of this diadem are the vulture and the uraeus; right: wavy body extending in an arc from front to back, serving to keep the diadem from dropping down over the face

Tutankhamun as king of Upper Egypt(left), Tutankhamun as King of Lower Egypt(Right) - 18th Dynasty, and the statues are made of gilded wood

Cow Mehetweret Bed Couch from Tutankhamun's Tomb. It is guilded as an image of Mehetweret("the Great flood"

Pharaoh Horemheb kneeling before Atum. In the picture Horemheb is holding two spherical vessels ad is wearing the Nemes head-dress, uraeus, royal beard, shendyt-kitt and sandals

During his reign, Horemheb decreed measures to protect individual property(and) ordered the restoration of the judicial... Administration of Egypt.

Ramesses II reclaimed Eypt's glory through war and peace treaties. His followers were unable to follow in his footsteps and the 10th Dynasty slipped into disputes and chaos