Sentence examples for mortuary temple from inspiring English sources

Although his pyramid and mortuary temple were unfinished at his death, his successor, Shepseskaf, completed the stonework of the mortuary temple in brick.

Some pharaohs of the Middle and New kingdoms had a cenotaph or a mortuary temple at Abydos.

Nothing remains of the pyramid's valley temple, but the causeway from it to the mortuary temple can still be traced.

Image 10 Aerial view of the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut on the west bank of the Nile, Egypt.

The queens' necropolis is located about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the mortuary temple of Ramses III (1187 56 bc) at Madīnat Habu.

Constructed near each pyramid was a mortuary temple, which was linked via a sloping causeway to a valley temple on the edge of the Nile floodplain.

In royal burials the chapel rapidly developed into a mortuary temple, which beginning in the New Kingdom was usually built separately and at some distance from the tomb.

He also built a number of new sanctuaries in Upper Egypt and Nubia and added his mortuary temple in western Thebes.

Mortuary temple, in ancient Egypt, place of worship of a deceased king and the depository for food and objects offered to the dead monarch.

There were no visitors at the nearby mortuary temple of Ramses II to see the fallen statue linked by legend to Ozymandias.

In western Thebes, he built a small but fine mortuary temple, and he also left memorials at Memphis, the residence of his youth.