History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . nty years of warfare, dur-ing which Thutmose crushed the cities and kingdoms of Western Fig. 15. Portrait ofTHE Napoleon ofAncient EgypTjThut-MOSE III (FifteenthCentury b. c.) Carved in granite andshowing the great con-queror (§ 49) wearingthe tall crown of UpperEgypt, with the sacredasp forming a serpeot-crest above his portraits in the Em-pire can be comparedwith the actual faces ofthese Egyptian emperorsas we have them in theirmummies (Fig. 20), andthey are thus shown tobe good likenesses. See
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . nty years of warfare, dur-ing which Thutmose crushed the cities and kingdoms of Western Fig. 15. Portrait ofTHE Napoleon ofAncient EgypTjThut-MOSE III (FifteenthCentury b. c.) Carved in granite andshowing the great con-queror (§ 49) wearingthe tall crown of UpperEgypt, with the sacredasp forming a serpeot-crest above his portraits in the Em-pire can be comparedwith the actual faces ofthese Egyptian emperorsas we have them in theirmummies (Fig. 20), andthey are thus shown tobe good likenesses. SeeAncient Times, Fig. 63 The Story of Egypt n Asia and united them into an enduring empire. At the same timehe gave great attention to sea power. He built the first greatnavy in history. His war fleet carried his power even to theiEgean Sea, and one of his generals became governor of the^gean islands. V. The Higher Life of the Empire and its Fall 50. The Empire Temples. The wealth which the Pharaohscaptured in Asia and Nubia during the Empire brought them \ ,^-1- ; / i=F^^+=. Fig. 16. Restoration of the Great Hall of Karnak, AncientThebes — Largest Building of the Egyptian Empire With the wealth taken in Asia the Egyptian conquerors of the Empire enabledtheir architects to build the greatest colonnaded hall ever erected by is three hundred and thirty-eight feet wide and one hundred and seventyfeet deep, furnishing a floor area about equal to that of the cathedral ofNotre Dame in Paris, although this is only a single room of the are one hundred and thirty-six columns in sixteen rows. SeeAncient Times, Fig. 271 power and magnificence unknown to the world before. All thiswas especially shown in their vast and splendid buildings. Anew period in the history of art and architecture began. Thetemple of Karnak, which we have visited, contains the greatestcolonnaded hall ever erected by man. The columns of the centralaisle (Fig. i6) are sixty-nine feet high. T
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