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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 temple of Thutmose III at Deir el-Bahari is a temple in the central part of the Deir el-Bahari Valley, built on a rocky platform and thus dominating over the earlier structures: the temple of Hatshepsut and the temple of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre of the Eleventh Dynasty. [1]
Deir-el-Bahari : documents topographiques, historiques et ethnographiques, recueillis dans ce temple pendant les fouilles exécutées par Auguste Mariette-Bey. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices de Son Altesse Ismail Khédive d'Egypte. Planches (in French). Leipzig: Heinrichs. Naville, Édouard (1895–1909). The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Vol. I ...
The Luxor massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on 17 November 1997 in Egypt.It was perpetrated by al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya and resulted in the deaths of 62 people, most of whom were tourists.
Bas-relief carvings in the ancient Egyptian temple of Deir el-Bahari depict events in the life of the pharaoh or monarch Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty. They show the Egyptian gods, in particular Amun, presiding over her creation, and describe the ceremonies of her coronation. Their purpose was to confirm the legitimacy of her status as a ...
She was discovered in the tomb of Senmut, an 18th Dynasty architect and overseer of royal works for queen Hatschepsut (1479-1458 BC), in Deir Elbahari near Luxor, Egypt.
Mentuhotep II was buried at the Theban necropolis of Deir el-Bahari. His mortuary temple was one of Mentuhotep II's most ambitious building-projects, and included several architectural and religious innovations. For example, it included terraces and covered walkways around the central structure, and it was the first mortuary temple that ...
English: Relief of Thutmose I. Facsimile by Nina deGaris Davies, 1925. Metropolitan Museum of Art Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.137). This painted relief from the Chapel of Anubis in the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut was copied by the artist Nina deGaris Davies as part of the work of the Graphic Section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition.