New Kingdom Dynasty Part 2
- Dec 21, 2013
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The New Kingdom pharaohs began a large-scale building campaign to promote the god Amun, whose growing cult was based in Karnak.
They also constructed monuments to glorify their own achievements, both real and imagined. The pharaoh Hatshepsut used such hyperbole and grandeur during her reign of almost twenty-two years.
Her reign was very successful, marked by an extended period of peace and wealth-building, trading expeditions to Punt, restoration of foreign trade networks, great building projects including an elegant mortuary temple that rivaled the Greek architecture of a thousand years later, a colossal pair of obelisks, and a chapel at Karnak.
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