Discuss the change from the Old Kingdom tombs to the New Kingdom tombs
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
Pyramids were large houses for the dead and their spirits.
Menkaure's pyramid originally stood higher than 480 feet.
The pyramid complex includes the colossal sphinx.
The Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut is an elaborate example.
Her temple was constructed on three levels connected by ramps and fronted by colonnades that gave the temple more of the emphasis, rather than the tomb.
Rare myrrh trees decorated the temple's terraces, and a causeway lined with sphinxes connected the complex to a valley temple on the Nile.
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