Amenhotep III

ninth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt

ancient Egyptian statues

Malkata (or Malqata; ), is the site of an Ancient Egyptian palace complex built during the New Kingdom, by the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III. It is located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Upper Egypt, in the desert to the south of Medinet Habu. The site also included a temple dedicated to Amenhotep III's Great Royal Wife, Tiy, which honors Sobek, the crocodile deity.

Tomb WV22, also known as KV22, was the burial place of Amenhotep III, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the western arm of the Valley of the Kings. The tomb is unique in that it has two subsidiary burial chambers for the pharaoh's wives Tiye and Sitamen (who was also his daughter). It was officially discovered in August 1799 by Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, engineers with Napoleon's expedition to Egypt but had probably been open for some time. The tomb was first excavated in the early 1900s by Theodore M. Davis; the details of this are lost. The first documented cle

temple of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III

archaeological site in Middle Egypt

building in Egypt

Colossal statue of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye

statue

statuettes of scarabs to commemorate events that happened during the rule of Pharaoh Amenhotep III