Medinet Habu was both a temple and a complex of temples dating from the New Kingdom. It adjoins the cultivation at the southern end of the Theban necropolis, opposite southern Luxor. The area was one of the earliest places within the Theban region to be associated with the worship of Amun. Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III built a small temple to Amun on the site of an earlier structure. Next to their temple, Ramses III built his mortuary temple, Madinet Habu’s most conspicuous standing monument.
The main temple is the great memorial temple of Ramesses III, the best preserved of all mortuary temples of Thebes. It is called the Mansion of Millions of Years of User-Maat-Re Meriamun, the throne name of Ramesses III, "United with Eternity in the Possession of Amun in Western Thebes." It contains more than 75,350 sq ft of decorated surfaces across its walls
IWNTA - SIGHTSEEING - Luxor - Medinet Habu Temple
