Hatshepsut temple

Hatshepsut Temple, Deir el Bahri

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, Thebes is a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height. The five most beautiful wallpapers and pictures of Thebes in Egypt. more on: http://fieggentrio.blogspot.nl/ http://dorpenstedennederland.blogspot.nl/

Temple of Queen Hatshepsut ("Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of 18th Dynasty, located opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. The temple is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian architecture. Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Her tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex.

Hatshepsut's temple is one of the world’s most striking architectural masterpieces, but perhaps even more noteworthy is the woman who commissioned it.

It was a blood-curdling discovery. The mummy of a young man with his hands and feed bound, his face contorted in an eternal scream of pain. But who was he and how did he die?

Hatshepsut was one of the longest-reigning and most prominent female pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Hailed as one of the most politically minded pharaohs to ever rule ancient Egypt, until the 19th century surprisingly little was known about her reign