Medinet Habu
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Medinet Habu is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt. Although other structures are located within the area and important discoveries have also been made at these sites, the location is today associated almost synonymously with the largest and best preserved site, the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III.
Temple of Ramesses III
Great church in Medinet Habu before it was destroyed during the excavation
Quartzite statue of a Pharaoh excavated from the ruins of the Ay and Horemheb temple in the 1930s. Traces of previous cartouches on the statue confirm that the statue was originally of Tutankhamun, which the later pharaohs thought to repurpose.
Nitocris I served as the heir to, and then, as the Divine Adoratrice of Amun or God's Wife of Amun for a period of more than seventy years, between 655 BC and 585 BC.
Nitocris adoption stela, shortly after discovery in Karnak in 1897