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In front of us, as we pass the VI and the last pylon of the main temple, a small and ruined structure of Tuthmosis III, with a granite gateway . On either side of the gateway is the well-known list of the conquests of Tuthmosis, which takes the usual form of a series of ovals with emergent figures, each oval bearing the name of a conquered city or locality . The list on the left-hand side is of particular interest, as it records, the tribes of the Upper Retenu ( Syria ) which His Majesty took in the wretched town of Megiddo .

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We pass through pylon No. IV, which formed the west front of the temple in the days of Tuthmosis I, but is now sadly ruined . The doorway was restored by Alexander The Great, the first of the later intrusions which we have to notice in this earlier part of the temple .

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We now cross the Hypostyle Hall again, and go out by the south door, in the middle of the south wall, to view the reliefs of Ramses II . These relate to his campaign against the Hittites . The wall of the first of the southern courts of the temple projects from the middle of the east section of the south wall of the Hypostyle Hall, and on the western face of this projecting wall, in the angle formed by it with the wall of the hypostyle, is inscribed the treaty of peace, which was made between Ramses and Hattushilish, King of the Hittites, in the twenty-first year of the Egyptian king .