Ancient Egypt The New Kingdom The State The

Ancient Egypt The New Kingdom: The State

The Conception of Amenhotep III: Amun impregnates Queen Mutemwia, wife of Tuthmose IV (18 th Dyn); Luxor Temple

Merneptah Stele or Israel stela, ca 1208 (19 th Dyn), from Merneptah’s Mortuary Temple, originally from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III (18 th Dyn), both in Western Thebes; 3 m, Egyptian Museum

Jean-Claude Golvin, general view of Thebes

Plan of Karnak and detail of the eastern face of the southern wing showing the aft of Amun's bark, Userhet barge with its large steering oars and ram-headed stern piece.

Jean-Claude Golvin, Temple of Karnak from the east

The Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III smiting Canaanite enemies on the seventh pylon at Karnak (18 th Dyn) The Poetical Stele of Thutmose III (18 th Dyn) from Karnak, 1. 7 m; Cairo Museum

The procession of Amun. Re's divine bark. Relief from the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut (18 th Dyn) Ramesses II censing before the divine bark of Amun-Re, Great Hypostyle Hall, Karnak (19 th Dyn)

Plan, current view, and reconstruction by Jean-Claude Golvin of the Ramesseum (19 th Dyn), Western Thebes

The Conception of Amenhotep III: Amun impregnates Queen Mutemwia, wife of Tuthmose IV (18 th Dyn); Luxor Temple

The Beautiful Festival of the Valley at the Tomb of Nakht (18 th Dyn), Western Thebes

Luxor Temple

Palaeolithic 700, 000 -7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800 -4700 Early Middle Late 8800 -6800 6600 -5100 -4700 Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada III 5300 -3000 5300 -4000 -3200 4400 -4000 -3500 (Amratian) 3500 -3200 (Gerzean) 3200 -3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th-30 th) 2 d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian 332 -310 Ptolemaic 305 -30 Roman 525 -404 343 -332 332 -30 30 BCE-642 CE