New Kingdom

New Kingdom Placemarks:

The New Kingdom started when after a series of wars Pharaoh Ahmose defeated the Hyksos rulers and reunited Egypt.
During the New Kingdom Thebes grew in importance as the Pharaohs of the 18th dynasty were closely related to the cult of the God Amun (Karnak Temple).

At the start of the 18^th dynasty the pharaohs and other high officials were buried in the Dra Abu el-Naga cemetery at West Thebes. Later when the pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings, the cemetery at West Thebes "moved southwards" to the Sheikh Abd el Qurna cemetery there.

See: The Theban Mapping Project
On the west bank of the Nile the pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty built their mortuary temples while their actual Tombes were in the Valley of the Kings.
The 18^th dynasty had many pharaohs that still hold our interest: Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Pharaoh Akhenaten, and Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
During the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten the sun disk "Aten" became the only God in Egypt and the capital (Ankhetaten) was moved to a place which we now known as Amarna. This city was abandoned under the rule of Pharaoh Tutankhamun who restored the God Amun and other Gods, after the religious revolution led by Pharaoh Akhenaten.

Placemarks:

Pyramid Ahmose, Abydos

Tomb K93.11, Dra Abu el-Naga, probably Amenhotep I

Deir el-Medina

Karnak Temple

Thutmose I temple, near Karnak temple

Mortuary Temple Thutmose II

Deir el-Bahri Temple, Hatshepsut

Temple of Mut, Thebes

Amun Temple, Medinet Habu, Thebes

Valley of the Kings

KV 20, Hatshepsut, Valley of the Kings