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Deir el-Bahri is the area is found the “The Temple of The Million Years” a temple at the entrance of the West valley or” Valley of the Death”, the decoration, made by statues and paintings are of outmost quality.
This mortuary temple was built by the architect, Senenmut for the Egyptian woman ruler Hatshepsut, famous for her trade expeditions to the legendary Punt from where they brought incense after three years departure from the Red Sea; it is also thought that a tree planted at the entrance of this majestic mortuary temple came from that distant place.
This area was originally dedicated to the goddess Hathor but the temples are dedicated to gods of Thebes. Hatshepsut’s temple was dedicated to Amon-Ra.
Its structure is made of three superimposed mastaba like buildings, originally had obelisks but now are at Karmak, also has a colonnade around and two ramp-steps access at the frontal middle of each level, apparently this architectonic complex was inspired by the temple built by Mentuhotep II pharaoh of the eleventh dynasty firth ruler of the “Middle Egyptian Empire” period; he dedicated his temple to Mentu-Ra the ancient god of Thebes.
Mentuhotep II introduced also a peculiarity; he used the temple for the rituals as used at the time but gave it other additional utility by using it as a burial place or Tomb.
Hatshepsut temple was fallowed Thotmes III the glorious pharaoh, the greatest conqueror of Egyptian History, also continued the tradition in the area but an ancient landslide partially destroyed the temple, unfortunately his temple and Mentuhotep II’s temple are quite deteriorated. Nonetheless the place was used by a great number of noble’s tombs; eventually the area was used also as a cemetery.
In this area was also found an ancient tomb dating to the eleventh dynasty in there were found forty mommies that belong to important pharaohs of the “New Egyptian Empire” as well close to there another cache was found with almost two hundred priests mommies; it is possible that at the fall of the “New Egyptian Empire” the priest of Amon or another powerful group of the twenty-first dynasty reburied their bodies to safeguarded them from the pillage and disorder that usually comes after the fall of an empire.
There are many questions in reference to this queen; Thotmes III, forty years after he ascended to the throne destroyed all the manifestations of this queen as he was trying to erase her from history.
Why not before? Did she bring something from Punt that rebound in Egyptian society decades after her death? Nevertheless her body was transfer to a secure secret place and was not harm on contrary was well taking care, she did steal from him some years of kingship but after all she raised him like a mother, most likely the resentment had to be external and not personal.
This mortuary temple was built by the architect, Senenmut for the Egyptian woman ruler Hatshepsut, famous for her trade expeditions to the legendary Punt from where they brought incense after three years departure from the Red Sea; it is also thought that a tree planted at the entrance of this majestic mortuary temple came from that distant place.
This area was originally dedicated to the goddess Hathor but the temples are dedicated to gods of Thebes. Hatshepsut’s temple was dedicated to Amon-Ra.
Its structure is made of three superimposed mastaba like buildings, originally had obelisks but now are at Karmak, also has a colonnade around and two ramp-steps access at the frontal middle of each level, apparently this architectonic complex was inspired by the temple built by Mentuhotep II pharaoh of the eleventh dynasty firth ruler of the “Middle Egyptian Empire” period; he dedicated his temple to Mentu-Ra the ancient god of Thebes.
Mentuhotep II introduced also a peculiarity; he used the temple for the rituals as used at the time but gave it other additional utility by using it as a burial place or Tomb.
Hatshepsut temple was fallowed Thotmes III the glorious pharaoh, the greatest conqueror of Egyptian History, also continued the tradition in the area but an ancient landslide partially destroyed the temple, unfortunately his temple and Mentuhotep II’s temple are quite deteriorated. Nonetheless the place was used by a great number of noble’s tombs; eventually the area was used also as a cemetery.
In this area was also found an ancient tomb dating to the eleventh dynasty in there were found forty mommies that belong to important pharaohs of the “New Egyptian Empire” as well close to there another cache was found with almost two hundred priests mommies; it is possible that at the fall of the “New Egyptian Empire” the priest of Amon or another powerful group of the twenty-first dynasty reburied their bodies to safeguarded them from the pillage and disorder that usually comes after the fall of an empire.
There are many questions in reference to this queen; Thotmes III, forty years after he ascended to the throne destroyed all the manifestations of this queen as he was trying to erase her from history.
Why not before? Did she bring something from Punt that rebound in Egyptian society decades after her death? Nevertheless her body was transfer to a secure secret place and was not harm on contrary was well taking care, she did steal from him some years of kingship but after all she raised him like a mother, most likely the resentment had to be external and not personal.
