Art history

Thebes

Karnak at Thebes, Precinct of Amun

Entrance pylons at Karnak, avenue of Sphinxes

First inner courtyard, Karnak

Sacred Lake, Karnak

Hypostyle hall

Hatshepsut’s fallen obelisk at Karnak; on pyramidion, Amun and kneeling Hatshepsut

Unfinished obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, Aswan quarry

Detail of Unfinished obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, Aswan

Unfinished pyramidion of the obelisk, and stone tools from site

Luxor Temple at Thebes, from south (back side)

Inner courtyard, Luxor Temple

Inner courtyard, Luxor Temple

Papyrus columns, inner courtyard of Luxor Temple

Luxor Temple on Nile, from south

Amenhotep III, BriOsh Museum (ruled ca. 1390-1350 BCE)

One of a pair of colossal statues of Amenhotep III, called by the Romans the “colossi of Memnon”

Sobek and Amenhotep III

Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye, with Princess Henu]aneb, Cairo Museum

Queen Tiye, ca. 1352 BCE now in Berlin

Queen Tiye (yew wood, gold, silver, faience, lapis lazuli, alabaster; head ca. 4 ½ “ high)

Ahkenaten, son of Amenhotep III and Tiye (ca. 1350 BCE)

Queen NeferOO, wife of Ahkenaten

Sculptor’s models for portraits of NeferOO

Ahkenaten, NeferOO, and their three daughters, under Aten (the sun)

Wall fresco from Amarna, two sisters

Valley of the Kings: at right, modern entrance to a royal tomb

Howard Carter and foreman in KV 62