Book1877
Monuments of Upper Egypt
Auguste Mariette
Surveys Karnak, Luxor, Dendera and Edfu as a connected sequence of building campaigns, arguing that a temple's successive additions record the political history of the dynasty that built them.
Archaeology · Egyptology & Near Eastern Archaeology
Temple Complexes
A topic within Egyptology & Near Eastern Archaeology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
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Book1894
The Temple of Deir el-Bahari
Édouard Naville
Publishes the excavation of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, arguing from its terraced plan and reliefs that the queen's building programme deliberately echoed the older Mentuhotep temple standing beside it.
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