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Hatshepsut[a] (/ hɑːtˈʃɛpsʊt / haht-SHEPP-sut; c. 1507–1458 BC) was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II and the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from c. 1479 BC until c. 1458 BC (Low Chronology). [8] She was Egypt's second confirmed queen regnant, the first being ...
Hatshepsut's Divine Birth. Carvings depicting "Hatshepsut's Divine Birth and Coronation" can be found at the Temple of Deir el Bahari, Egypt. In the Divine Birth sequence, Amun calls upon a meeting of gods to announce the coming of a great and powerful queen. Amun asks the gods to bestow upon her protection and riches, and he promises to grant ...
Mortuary temple of HatshepsutDjeser-Djeseru. The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. [b] Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture.
The focal point of the Deir el-Bahari complex is the Djeser-Djeseru meaning "the Holy of Holies", the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. It is a colonnaded structure, which was designed and implemented by Senenmut, royal steward and architect of Hatshepsut, to serve for her posthumous worship and to honor the glory of Amun.
The rock cut temple of Pakhet by Hatshepsut in Speos Artemidos.. The most famous temple of Pakhet was an underground, cavernous shrine that was built by Hatshepsut near al Minya, [1] among thirty-nine ancient tombs of Middle Kingdom nomarchs of the Oryx nome, who governed from Hebenu, in an area where many quarries exist.
The Eighteenth Dynasty spanned the period from 1550/1549 to 1292 BC. This dynasty is also known as the Thutmoside Dynasty[1]: 156 ) for the four pharaohs named Thutmose. Several of Egypt's most famous pharaohs were from the Eighteenth Dynasty, including Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
Polymath. Amenhotep, son of Hapu (transcribed jmn-ḥtp zꜣ ḥꜣp.w; [dubious – discuss] fl. early-mid 14th century BC) was an ancient Egyptian architect, a priest, a herald, a scribe, and a public official, who held a number of offices under Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty. Part of a series on.
Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, [ 1 ] the Amarna religion, [ 2 ] and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a pharaoh who ruled the New Kingdom under the Eighteenth Dynasty. [ 3 ] The religion is described as monotheistic or monolatristic, although some Egyptologists argue that it was actually ...