Revisiting the Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple

This is a re-review of an older story from 2007.

The mortuary temple of the 18th Dynasty king Amenhotep III must have been quite the most sumptuous ever created. This king's reign was an artistic high; sadly, little more than a century later, an earthquake partially destroyed it, and a 19th Dynasty king made his funerary monument out of the older monuments blocks.

On the upside, King Merenptah had the blocks turned around and re-carved for himself; thus, the older carvings were unseen and protected.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/egyptiantemple-200711.html