The Temple of Montu at Tod in Egypt

Todd Djerty old, during the Greco-Roman Tuphium is a small village built around the old hill (mound) on the eastern bank of the Nile River, about 20 miles south of Luxor (Thebes). Located on the other side of the Nile from Armant (Armant old). Jean-Francois Champollion was among the first researchers of the ancient ruins. Visited the rest of the basement that emerged from the high temple buried under the village.
Then, in 1934, and Fernand de LA ROQUE Bisson on the ruins of the first two rooms, which can be dated from the Ptolemaic period. The first was in the hall of columns and the other was dominated by the high basement. In the back of the temple on the other side is to detect the presence of traces of the church which was built directly on the stone pavement of the sanctuary of the Pharaohs. Sandstone, and forward from the date of Ptolemy on the old wall of limestone and are connected to the pavement. They have a long historical writings of the Kingdom of the East, Sesostris I, and was part of the temple earlier this king.
Court of columns (Hall of Columns), which probably began in the reign of Ptolemy VIII, cameras were several, including the hidden treasure room above the church in the south side.
Under the paving blocks slaps extracted earlier stages of the construction of the temple back to the kings of the Kingdom of East early, Mentuhotep II and III, which dates back to the family of Amenemhat I to 11, who is credited with the establishment of strain 12. However, it was found some pieces at a time dating back to the strain Weserkaf 5. Can these blocks and part of the Middle Kingdom to consider the material in a small magazine open on the site.
In the arena of the structure of the founding of the Kingdom of East, in the context of a small forward, and found four boxes of copper in the name of King Amenemhat II. Known as the "The Treasury Department would like to", and these were filled with lapis lazuli, silver and some gold objects. These elements are now in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, and also in the Louvre Museum in Paris. All the pieces of lapis lazuli was rough, glossy finish, or a piece of grain or cylinder seals of different origins in the Near East, dating back to BC and the early third millennium. Silver is composed of flat bars, chains and bars, cups spiral. The origin of this is still debated among archaeologists, but the most consistent hypothesis is that was causing the Minoan or Syria, and for the most part, which is a tribute to Foreign Affairs. Some of the items came to a country such as Afghanistan, lapis lazuli).
Anything above "like treasure" has been to find a place to find the regular Saite (26th Dynasty) bronze figures of Osiris.
Between 1981 and 1991 the site had been discovered again, this time by the Louvre Museum focuses on the area around the temple. This work and a balcony built in the early Middle Kingdom. There, and revealed the special operations chapels survived until the age of the modern state. There was no western entrance to the Temple dromes (one way or phrase) was founded in the third century BC, probably by Ptolemy IV, who probably built to replace two of Ptolemy from those incurred due to the time of Tuthmosis III. Dromos and did not complete and a platform overlooking the waterfront and was redesigned in the second century before Christ, or to include the pylon, which was not completed. Here, too, the rest of the way to the Sphinx.
Before the Ptolemaic period, and the temple is accessible only from the north, as shown in the placement of the garden in the path initiated by the Chapel of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II and completed. Talatats, which was the standard size of the blocks used in construction during the reign of Amenhotep IV, and probably brought from Karnak, and may be used to fill the upper parts of the temple, at the end of the Ptolemaic era, or even in the late period of the Romanian. Decoration is largely attributed to Ptolemy II and VIII Euergetes Ptolemy XII, in spite of the recent inscriptions dating back to Roman times, during the reign of Antoninus Pius.
The temple complex of the Middle Kingdom was mostly dedicated to the worship of the Egyptian god is important, Montu, which has a number of other temples in the area allocated to it.
And monuments that are to survive the new Spain and abroad. The boat is partially preserved the haven for Montu built by Tuthmosis III and restored by Amenhotep II and Seti I, Amenmesse, and Ramses III and IV. It is in front of the cameras that were built during the Ptolemaic era. However, the anterior wall of the structure of Sesostris I still, even though they are good examples of the abuse, post-treatment.
The kiosk was a Roman temple near the Ptolemaic period. To the north of the rooms had already been dug Lake Ptolemy, either at one time, or shortly after the construction of the rooms. To the south, and another mound refers to the different stages of urban growth, in contrast to some other temple.