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Temples of Amun

Temples of Amun paid to Amun were constructed throughout Egypt, and Ramses II built or rebuilt different of them. Three of these temples are those at Deir el-Medina, Luxor and Karnak:

1- Deir el-Medina is located on the western bank of the Nile across from Thebes and good the Valley of the Kings. Ramses II developed this temple and two given to the other extremities of the Thebean Triad.

Amuns temple at Luxor
2- Amuns temple at Luxor was first built round 1500 BC and has been an open religious site up to the face day. People worshipped a special version of Amun, named Amenemope (Amun of Opet). Two names for the Luxor Temple are the Place of Privacy or the Southern Opet. This temple was in the heart of ancient Thebes and a prosodion road related it to Karnak.

3- The temple complex at Karnak is the largest temple complex constructed by humans and the Great Temple of Amun is its top jewel. Generations of pharaohs brought to or rebuilt sections of this temple. Criosphinxes (sphinxes with drive heads) line one of the processional ways. Various courts, obelisks, and pylons, carved with hieroglyphics, are role of this temple. Individual temples are division of this complex accepting one given to Aten. Akhenaten established it during the first 5 years of his predominate, before he moved the capital to Amarna (In Minya).

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