Temple of Thutmose III — Attraction in Old Karnak

The Temple of Thutmose III, or معبد تحتمس الثالث in Arabic, is an ancient Egyptian temple complex located in Luxor, Egypt. Built during the New Kingdom period, it was dedicated to the worship of the pharaoh Thutmose III, one of Egypt's most successful warrior kings.

While the Temple of Thutmose III is not as famous as some of Egypt's other temples, such as Karnak or Luxor, it nonetheless holds archaeological and historical significance. The temple was constructed to honor Thutmose III's military victories and his divine status as a ruler.

Like many ancient Egyptian temples, it features a series of halls, courtyards, and sanctuaries adorned with intricate carvings and reliefs depicting scenes from Thutmose III's reign, religious rituals, and offerings to the gods. Although much of the temple is in ruins today, visitors can still marvel at the remnants of its once grand architecture and imagine the splendor of ancient Egyptian religious ceremonies.

While the Temple of Thutmose III may not attract the same crowds as other more famous temples, it remains an important site for scholars and enthusiasts of ancient Egyptian history, offering valuable insights into the religious and political practices of the New...

The “Akh-Menou” is an independent temple on the eastern side of the main Temple, built by Thutmosis III (Reign: 1479 – 1425 B.C.) in 23rd year of his reign. Its only entrance was located at the eastern end of the processional way, which ran along the southern side of the Temple of Amun.

The “Heret-Ib” in the western part is a large hall with 32 "tent-pole" columns whose relief has retained a major part of the original polychrome coloring. The hall gives access to the solar chambers in the north, the Amun sanctuary in the center, and chambers devoted to the Sokaris chthonian underworld in the south.

A ramp on the north provided access to the roof where Heliopolitan rites were carded out. Behind the Amun sanctuary, a series of chambers known as "the botanical gardens" comprises decorations based on extraordinary, non-Egyptian plant and animal life.

During the Christian period, the Heret-lb was compartmented using wooden partitions to create a church in the northern part and a baptistery...

The Temple of Thutmose III at Deir el-Bahari - a temple in the central part of the Deir el-Bahari Valley, built on a rocky platform and thus dominating over the earlier structures: the temple of Hatshepsut and the temple of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre of the Eleventh Dynasty. The temple was built in the last decade of Tuthmosis III's reign, i.e., about 1435–1425 BC.

It was destroyed, probably by an earthquake, at the beginning of the Twenty-first Dynasty. Fragments of walls covered with relief decoration were preserved. The building was presumably modeled on the neighboring terraced temples with pillared porticoes flanking the ramps leading to higher levels. It was called Djeser-akhet.

The remains of the temple of Tuthmosis III were uncovered in the years 1962–67. The excavations were initiated by Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski, then director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of...