The "megalithic age" lasted from 4000 B.C.E to 1500 B.C.E., spanning from as far north as Scandinavia and the British Isles to as far south as the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Malta. ... Before his death, Amenhotep would attempt to change the capital city from Thebes to Akhetaten (Horizon of Aten), a new city about 200 miles north of Thebes. ... This was the beginning of the end of the Egyptian Empire, which would only last till the 20th dynasty and end in 1070 B.C.. 8. ... Media only lasted as an independent kingdom for the duration of one rule. ... Alexander himself led the last charg...

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The entrances of temples symbolize the horizon along with the decreasing height throughout the temples symbolizing the cycle of the sun, rising in the morning and setting at night. ... The last theory was that the temple symbolized tombs. ...

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