The great southern city of Amun, in Egyptian Waset, 'the city of the scepter', site of the Karnak and Luxor temples on the east bank and the royal necropolis on the west; the 18th Dynasty was a Theban line, and its kings were buried in the Valley of the Kings. Its priesthood's wealth and influence form the political backdrop to the Amarna break, and it was at Karnak that Tutankhamun's Restoration Stela was erected.