During the New Kingdom, the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak was the most important place of worship in Egypt. (Amun-Re was King of the Gods and father to the pharaoh.) The entire temple complex covers ...

Amenhotep III’s mortuary temple would have rivaled the great Karnak Temple across the river ... as his son, Amenhotep IV (r. ca. 1353–1349 B.C.), enacted radical religious changes that ...