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Excerpt from Two Theban Princes, Kha-Em-Uast Amen-Khepeshf, Sons of Rameses III: Menna, a Land-Steward, and Their Tombs The principal buildings of his reign (c. 1200-1169 bc.) were the Amen temple and the temple of Khons at Karnak; a temple near the temple of Mut; and his great mortuary temple at Medinet Habu. His tomb is No. II in the Valley of the Kings; but his mummy, now in Cairo Museum, was not found there but in the hiding-place at Thebes, in one of the coffins of Queen Aahmes Nefert-ari (dynasty XVIII.) in 1881. With touching, but not rare, filial affection he had appropri ated his father's tomb, thoughtfully plaster ing over the parental cartouches; but time, the revealer, has removed some of the later stucco, and Setnekht's name may still be read. Nothing else in the tomb gives any family details, as, true to the practice in decorating royal tombs, the life of the future is the sole subject (see the Old Egg/ea Faz'z'é, and Two Téeéan Queens). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.