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Deir el-Bahri
temple of Hatshepsut















 
Deir el-Bahri - temple of Hatshepsut

Deir el-Bahri (literally meaning, “The Northern Monastery”) is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located at the western bank of the Nile, close to the Valley of the Kings, opposite the city of Luxor.
The first monument built at the site was the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh dynasty.
The central structure of Deir el-Bahri, however, is the Djeser-Djeseru, the mortuary temple of the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty, 1490-1468 BC). Djeser-Djeseru sits atop a series of colonnaded terraces, reached by long ramps, and is built into a cliff face that rises sharply above it.

On November 17, 1997 62 people were massacred by Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya at the site.

[sources: wikipedia.org]