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Deir el-Bahari or Dayr al-Bahri (Arabic: الدير ... The first monument built at the site was the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty. It was ...
It has been suggested that Hatshepsut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV20, was meant to be an element of the mortuary complex at Deir el-Bahari. [80] The arrangement of the temple and tomb bear a spatial resemblance to the pyramid complexes of the Old Kingdom, [ 81 ] [ 82 ] which comprised five central elements: valley temple, causeway ...
I Mentuhotep's mortuary temple, 1) Bab el-Hosan cache, 2) Lower pillared halls, 3) Upper hall, 4) core building, maybe a pyramid and between 3) and 4) is the ambulatory, 5) Hypostyle Hall, 6) Sanctuary. Mentuhotep II's most ambitious and innovative building project remains his large mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
Several other rulers of this dynasty built temples for the same purpose, the best known being those at Deir el-Bahari, where Hatshepsut built beside the funerary temple of Mentuhotep II, [4] and that of Amenhotep III, of which the only major extant remains are the Colossi of Memnon. The mortuary temple of Hatshesput was built around 1490 B.C.
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]
It is built into a cliff face that rises sharply above it. Djeser-Djeseru and the other buildings of the Deir el-Bahri complex are considered to be among the great buildings of the ancient world. The building complex design is thought to be derived from the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II built nearly 500 years earlier at Deir-el-Bahri. [6]
She ruled for over 20 years, expanded Egypt’s trade networks, commissioned grand architectural projects like her famous temple at Deir el-Bahri, and established a period of peace and prosperity ...
The structure was built around the 19th Egyptian Dynasty (c. 1290 –1224 BC). [1] Its design was initially instituted by Hatshepsut, at the North-west chapel to Amun in the upper terrace of Deir el-Bahri. The name refers to hypostyle architectural pattern.