Third Intermediate Period
The fragmentation of Egypt with a pharaoh ruling in the north, and the High Priests of Amun ruling in Thebes. The northern kings seem to have constructed nothing and added little to the complex, but the High Priests continued to decorate the Temple of Khonsu, especially Herihor and Pinedjem I.
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