MALKATA PALACE

With White Bird Travel you will have a new experience in one of the domestic buildings ruins that survived from the Ancient Egyptian history. This type of buildings couldn’t survive through the time as these buildings were made out of mud brick, get this experience and gain this knowledge about the Malkata Palace which was built by Amenhotep III, and is located on the western bank of Luxor. 

Moreover the palace was built by Amenhotep III; a large palace with a large lake linked with Nile and enabled the king to move to Luxor easily. The palace’s name is Per-Hay "House of Rejoicing" was full of festival halls, ballroom, reception rooms, and houses for relatives of the royal family and the Temple of Amun, the palace is Egypt's largest royal headquarters, as we can see from the remains of the base. Beside the great palace there was a small one for his beloved Queen Tye only for her. His son and successor Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) until he moved to Al-Amarna and left the Palace but most probably that Tutankhamun lived in the palace after the worship of Amun-Re returned the main Worship.   

Malkata Palace features was beautiful with paintings that shed light on the ways of the decoration of the building, it also have many drawings of gods and goddesses such as the goddess Nekhbet which shows the top of the roof of the royal bedroom, Archaeologists discovered that within this palace there were Pharaonic graffiti displaying many views of plants such as flowers and reeds And it also shows the wildlife that they used to deal with and the animals in the marches.