The second and third Amenemhats added some work to it, and the princes of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties adorned it with statues and tables of offerings.

It was still unaltered when, in the eighteenth century B.C., Thothmes I., enriched with booty of war, resolved to enlarge it.

In advance of what already stood there, he erected two chambers, preceded by a court and flanked by two isolated chapels.

In advance of these again, he erected three successive pylons, one behind the other.

The whole presented the appearance of a vast rectangle placed crosswise at the end of another rectangle.