A Visit to the Temple of Egypt's First Female Pharoah
Stacy
Posted On 09/22/2024 10:18:22
Egypt | Middle East | Nile River | Luxor | Thebes | West Bank | Temple of Queen Hatshepsut | Deir el-Bahri | Nile River Cruise | Afterlife | Tomb | Temple
The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut is located at Deir el-Bahri, just east of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. According to ancient Egyptian history, Queen Hatshepsut was the first of only three women to lead the country. The architecture of her three layered temple has similarities to the nearby Temple of Mentuhotep II, but her goal was to make her temple bigger and better so that it would stand out even more!
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After exploring several of the tombs at Luxor's Valley of the Kings, we made our way over to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the country's first female ruler. Definitely some similarities between the final resting places of the male pharoahs and the temple of country's first queen, but also plenty of differences!
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