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During the 20th Dynasty, Djanet became the administrative centre of Western Thebes and the meeting
place of the striking workers and artisans of Deir el-Medina who stayed there waiting for their demands to be accepted.
Later, by the end of the 20th Dynasty, this site became a place of refuge for the population during the war waged by the
High Priest of Amun of Karnak against the viceroy of Kush, and still later, in the period of the 25th and 26th Dynasties,
it was the place where the cult of the Divine Adoratrices of Amun was celebrated. The Medinet Habu complex was expanded
during the Graeco-Roman period, and its long history still continued between the 1st - 9th centuries AD when the Coptic
city of Jeme was built in the area and a church was constructed in the second courtyard of the Temple. The excavations of
Medinet Habu began in 1859 and, since 1924, studies at the site have been carried out by the Oriental Institute of the University
of Chicago, which has published the complete epigraphical and architectural documentation of the Temple. |
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