The site covers roughly 200–600 acres (sources vary on exact boundaries) and includes four main precincts—primarily the Precinct of Amun-Ra (the largest and most visited), plus those of Mut, Montu, and the dismantled Temple of Amenhotep IV—along with pylons, courtyards, hypostyle halls, obelisks, chapels, and sacred lakes.
Key contributors include Hatshepsut (obelisks and chapels), Thutmose III (Festival Hall), Amenhotep III, Seti I and Ramesses II (the famous Hypostyle Hall with 134 columns), and later rulers.
The queen of Amenhotep III
Mother of Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten
Although her identity has been concealed in your Bible, Tiye became the queen of Amenhotep III.
Queen Tiye further merged the royal bloodlines of Egypt with those of the ancient Hebrews by giving birth to a number of children including Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten.
This chapter focuses extensively on Queen Tiy as the beloved consort of Amenhotep III.
Tiy married Amenhotep III out of mutual love around age sixteen, and their union was marked by devotion.
She bore several daughters and a son, Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV), who later became pharaoh.
During Amenhotep III's reign and into her son Akhenaton's early rule, Tiy held influence akin to a co-ruler, participating in public ceremonies and foreign affairs, as evidenced by the Tell-el-Amarna letters.
This section notes a "new strain of Negro blood" entering the royal line through Queen Mutemua (Amenhotep III's mother, not his wife), leading to Amenhotep III's birth around 1420 B.C.
Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten
Amenôphthis (Amenhotep): Likely Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten).
Amenhotep III is famous for his building projects, while Akhenaten introduced significant religious reforms.
Quartzite stones above Amenhotep III’s tomb, each weighing 110 metric tons.
Osiris, prince, the future king, fared in the galley eighty manned—Aamhotep to the left, Usertsen at the right with men to battle seasoned.
Aamhotep?
Aamhotep?
And young Aamhotep in his early youth did love and long to wed her.
And loved was Aamhotep of that young prince and kinsman, Osiris.
still farther!" was the loud command of him, Aamhotep, when the Nile bore refugees upon its breast.
Three sculptured forms shall meet the eye of man—Osiris, Aamhotep, Usertsen, wrought so well that later art seems crude.
I think Daniel is referring here to the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten, and died in 1350 BCE.
The earliest examples date to the reign of Amenhotep III, and from then until the end of dynastic Egyptian history, few people were buried without one placed within the mummy wrappings, usually on the upper torso.
Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who reigned during the 18th dynasty (c.