ABSTRACT
The main temple of Medinet Habu was built by the last of the great Pharaohs, and is itself the latest example of purely Egyptian architecture. It belongs to that group of magnificent temples of the New Kingdom, of which Hatshepsut’s temple at Dêr el Bahri was the first. The next great period of building was several centuries later under the Ptolemies, when foreign influence had permeated the whole country.
