Editing Thutmose III (section)

===Karnak===
Thutmose dedicated far more attention to [[Karnak]] than any other site. In the Iput-isut, the temple proper in the center, he rebuilt the [[hypostyle]] hall of his grandfather [[Thutmose I]], dismantled the red chapel of Hatshepsut, built Pylon VI, a shrine for the bark of Amun in its place, and built an antechamber in front of it, the ceiling of which was supported by his heraldic pillars. He built a [[temenos]] wall around the central chapel containing smaller chapels, along with workshops and storerooms. East of the main sanctuary, he built a jubilee hall in which to celebrate his [[Sed festival]]. The main hall was built in basilica style with rows of pillars supporting the ceiling on each side of the aisle. The central two rows were higher than the others to create windows where the ceiling was split.<ref name="Lipinska 402"/> Two of the smaller rooms in this temple contained the reliefs of the survey of the plants and animals of Canaan which he took in his third campaign.<ref name="Grimal 302">Grimal, Nicolas. ''A History of Ancient Egypt.'' p. 302. Librairie Arthéme Fayard, 1988.</ref>

East of the Iput-Isut, he erected another temple to Aten, where he was depicted as being supported by [[Amun]].<ref name="Grimal 303">Grimal, Nicolas. ''A History of Ancient Egypt.'' p. 303. Librairie Arthéme Fayard, 1988.</ref> It was inside this temple that Thutmose planned on erecting his ''tekhen waty'', or "unique obelisk."<ref name="Grimal 303"/> The ''tekhen waty'' was designed to stand alone instead as part of a pair and is the tallest [[obelisk]] ever successfully cut. It was not, however, erected until Thutmose IV raised it<ref name="Grimal 303"/> 35 years later.<ref>Breasted, James Henry. ''Ancient Records of Egypt, Vol. II.'' p. 330. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1906.</ref> It was later moved to Rome by Emperor [[Constantius II]] and is now known as the [[Lateran Obelisk]].

In 390 AD, Christian Roman Emperor [[Theodosius I]] re-erected another obelisk from the Temple of Karnak in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople]], now known as the [[Obelisk of Theodosius]].

Thutmose also undertook building projects to the south of the main temple between the sanctuary of Amun and the temple of [[Mut]]. Immediately to the south of the main temple, he built the seventh pylon on the north–south road which entered the temple between the fourth and fifth pylons. It was built for use during his jubilee and was covered with scenes of defeated enemies. He set royal colossi on both sides of the pylon and put two more obelisks on the south face in front of the gateway. The eastern obelisk's base remains in place, but the western obelisk was transported to the Hippodrome in Constantinople.<ref name="Grimal 303"/> Farther south along the road, he put up Pylon VIII, which Hatshepsut had begun.<ref name="Lipinska 402"/> East of the road, he dug a [[sacred lake]] of 250 by 400 feet and placed another alabaster bark shrine near it.<ref name="Lipinska 402"/> He commissioned royal artists to depict his extensive collections of fauna and flora in the [[Botanical garden of Thutmosis III]].