id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8115 Amenhotep III - Wikipedia .html text/html 7238 972 80 Evidence that Sitamun already was promoted to this office by Year 30 of his reign, is known from jar-label inscriptions uncovered from the royal palace at Malkata.[8] Egypt's theological paradigm encouraged a male pharaoh to accept royal women from several different generations as wives to strengthen the chances of his offspring succeeding him.[11] The goddess Hathor herself was related to Ra as first the mother and later wife and daughter of the god when he rose to prominence in the pantheon of the Ancient Egyptian religion.[8] Amenhotep III's first recorded act as king—in his Years 1 and 2—was to open new limestone quarries at Tura, just south of Cairo and at Dayr al-Barsha in Middle Egypt in order to herald his great building projects.[47] He oversaw the construction of another temple to Ma'at at Luxor and virtually covered Nubia with numerous monuments. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8115.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8115.txt