Merenptah is not be a name that immediately comes to mind when we think of pharaohs which is a little surprising as he was the thirteenth son of Ramses II and became pharaoh after the death of his much more famous father and ruled Egypt for around ten years between 1213 - 1203 B.C.

Merenptah was the third pharaoh of the twentieth dynasty and chose to live in Memphis but in Luxor we have his temple, which was built with the help of many borrowed pieces from nearby temples, most notably that of Amenhotep III, he was also buried Luxor in the second largest tomb in the Valley of Kings.

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