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16th century BC palace of an unknown king, Ballas [1] 14th century BC palace of Amenhotep III in Malkata (or Malqata), Luxor; 1346 BC Amarna palaces of the Pharaoh Akhenaten in al-Minya; 14th century BC Amenhotep III palace at Avaris (Pi-Ramesses) in the Eastern Desert; 13th century BC palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah in Memphis, Egypt [2]
Malkata (or Malqata; Arabic: الملقطة, lit. 'the place where (ancient) things are picked up') [1], is the site of an Ancient Egyptian palace complex built during the New Kingdom, by the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III.
An enormous pylon stood before the first court, with the royal palace at the left and the gigantic statue of the king looming up at the back. [2] As was customary, the pylons and outer walls were decorated with scenes commemorating the pharaoh's military victories and leaving due record of his dedication to, and kinship with, the gods.
They believe the Pharaoh used the building to rest and relax in between military campaigns. Ruins of the 3,400-year-old rest house found in Tel Habwa. Uncover more archaeological finds.
Merneptah moved Egypt's administrative center from Pi-Ramesses, his father's capital, back to Memphis, where he constructed a royal palace next to the temple of Ptah. The Penn Museum , led by Clarence Stanley Fisher , excavated this palace in 1915.
The document records the pharaoh's wish to have several temples of the Aten to be erected here, for several royal tombs to be created in the eastern hills of Amarna for himself, his chief wife Nefertiti, and his eldest daughter Meritaten as well as his explicit command that when he was dead, he would be brought back to Amarna for burial. [13]
The pharaohs of the Twenty-first Dynasty transported all the old Ramesside temples, obelisks, stelae, statues and sphinxes from Pi-Ramesses to the new site. The obelisks and statues, the largest weighing over 200 tons, were transported in one piece while major buildings were dismantled into sections and reassembled at Tanis.
Al-Khazneh The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. Al-Khazneh (Arabic: الخزنة; IPA:, "The Treasury"), A.K.A. Khazneh el-Far'oun (treasury of the pharaoh), is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times.